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Dec 2022
25m 20s

India: Why is Gautam Adani so interested...

Al Jazeera
About this episode
Gautam Adani - India’s richest man with close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi - is in the midst of a takeover of NDTV, a news network considered one of the last bastions of critical journalism on the Indian airwaves. If the sale does go through - what are the chances that Adani will prioritise his relationship with power over the channel’s independence?

Contributors:
Ravi Nair - Journalist & commentator
Raksha Kumar - Mumbai-based journalist
Atul Chaurasia - Executive editor, Newslaundry
Kapil Komireddi - Author, Malevolent Republic

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In the decade since its birth, Fanpage has grown from a Facebook page to an award-winning investigative news website, gradually reshaping the staid Italian media landscape. Producer Flo Phillips reports, from Naples, on how the Facebook page-turned-news source symbolises a shift in the country’s media.

Contributors:
Gaia Martignetti - Video reporter, Fanpage
Francesco Cancellato - Editor-in-chief, Fanpage
Alessio Cornia - Research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

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