Here’s the thing about Janvi Manchanda: she doesn’t slow-walk her point. She runs a digital newsroom by day, tests the limits of women’s safety by night, and refuses to trade credibility for clout. As Managing Editor at Hauterrfly, Janvi’s journalism is part edit calendar, part cultural audit, and entirely uninterested in tiptoeing. The day job: deadlines, dials and a desk that doesn’t sleep Her mornings start deceptively early. “I usually log in around 8:30 or 9, assign stories to the team… and then I go back to sleep for an hour. That’s my little relief,” she laughs. By 10:30 she’s back online, approving headlines, juggling PR calls, and—depending on who’s calling—shoot requests or edit approvals. “It’s mad. Some days I feel like I run a call centre,” she says. Between the social team asking for reels, the production crew pushing videos for review, and brainstorms that start at 7 p.m. and run past 10, midnight homecomings are routine. The trolls

Prasar Bharati will conduct its 90th online e-auction for vacant MPEG-2 slots on the DD Free Dish platform on August 20, 2025. Successful bidders will get slots from August 29, 2025, to March 31, 2026.  Channels will compete within genre-language buckets, with reserve prices ranging from Rs 9.60 crore for Hindi/Urdu GECs (Bucket A+) to Rs 1.76 crore for regional language channels (Bucket R). Categories include Hindi/Urdu movie and music (Bucket A), sports and Bhojpuri (Bucket B), news (Bucket C), devotional, Marathi, Punjabi, English news, and select regional languages (Bucket D).  From next year, any Indian language represented for two consecutive years in Bucket R will move to Bucket D. Broadcasters must ensure at least 75 per cent of monthly programming matches the declared genre and language, excluding ads, or risk slot cancellation.  Applications must be filed online with supporting PDFs, a Rs 25,000 non-refundable processing fee, and a Rs 1.5 crore participation

Image source: NBC News, Reuters and The Economist; Edited by Dinesh Raj M   With the threat of 50 per cent tariff on US exports looming ahead, the National Statistics Office (NSO) came up with some good news claiming that retail inflation had slowed down to an eight-year low in July, thanks to moderating food prices. Meanwhile, PM Modi is expected to meet Donald Trump in September on the sidelines of the UNGA Summit to ease tensions. Hot off the Press Food inflation declined by 75 basis points in July, compared to June, reported The Times of India. "The food inflation in July 2025 is the lowest at –1.8 per cent, after Jan 2019, when it was at –2.2 per cent. The core inflation also decelerated sharply and for the first time in six months stood below 4 per cent (at 3.9 per cent). Excluding gold prices, the core inflation decelerated below 3 per cent to 2.96 per cent in July, almost 100 basis points lower than headline core CPI,” said Soumya Kanti Ghosh, group chief econo

If you’re a PR professional and you’re sending Cyber Daily’s Deputy Editor, David Hollingworth, a pitch, they have a message for you.  “Give me everything,” Hollingworth told Influencing Insider, “If a PR can get us an excellent, complete story with everything we need, including good quotes, easy numbers, and a headshot of whoever gave the quotes, that's everything we need. “If I have to respond to a PR and say, "Hey, can I get a headshot of this guy?" Or "Hi, can I get some quotes from this person?" And the response is, "Oh yeah, we'll go to the US and return to you,” then three days later, that's no longer news, and it’s moved on.” Hollingworth spoke on Influencing Insider live about how they and the CyberDaily team break cyber attack stories and cover cybersecurity trends, as well as detailing how they engage with PRs. Hollingworth said they had told PRs during coffee catchups that one way to get their releases is via commercial partnerships.  “Support

  If today’s front pages are to be believed, Jim Chalmers’ upcoming economic reform roundtable will arrive just in time for the nation’s favourite parlour game: guessing the RBA’s next snip, shave, or surgical strike on interest rates. Depending on your masthead, we’re either on the cusp of a Goldilocks economy (with the small matter of a productivity ice age), bracing for a wage-pain winter, staring down a “grim reality check,” or squinting at what might be “a double shot of good news.” Throw in a dash of property-price panic, and it’s less a coherent forecast than a choose-your-own-economic-adventure. Better rate than never The Daily Telegraph’s ” John Rolfe leads off, under the headline of the day: “Better rate than never – more cuts predicted for homeowners, with one catch.” The widely held view is that interest rates are likely to fall in November, with two more cuts in prospect for next year as the RBA “moves to deliver a Goldilocks outcome

Image source: CNN, NDTV, India TV News and WION; Edited by Dinesh Raj M   The Supreme Court’s sweeping order to remove all stray dogs from Delhi-NCR streets has dominated headlines — and opinions — across the print media today.  Hot off the Press Amit Anand Choudhary in The Times of India traced the roots of the suo motu case to the paper’s own report, “City hounded by strays, kids pay the price,” which triggered judicial urgency. The bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan framed the move as a matter of “larger public interest” and a safety imperative, instructing civic bodies to construct shelter homes, set up bite-report helplines and stock rabies vaccines across government hospitals — all within eight weeks. Krishnadas Rajagopal in The Hindu captured the court’s uncompromising tone: no sentiments, no compromises, and certainly no return of captured dogs to public spaces. He noted the justices’ cinematic analogy — a nod to The Good, The

    SBS Managing Director James Taylor (pictured) will be stepping down from his role at the public broadcaster after 13 years of service, with the last seven years as Managing Director.    Appointed as Managing Director in October 2018, Taylor has presided over a period of record growth for SBS. Taylor, who has led SBS since 2018, will start his new role as CEO of oOh!media in late 2025 or early 2026, succeeding Cathy O'Connor who announced in April her intention to step down after more than four years in the role and will remain with oOh! until January 2026 to ensure an orderly transition. “It’s been a privilege to lead SBS and work alongside such a talented and committed team. I’m incredibly proud that today we’re reaching the biggest audiences in our history, producing more original local content than ever, and doing it with a credibility we’ve earned, not claimed,” said Taylor. “SBS has a clear purpose: to serve, reflect and connect all Australians - no