India: Why is Gautam Adani so interested in NDTV? | The Listening Post
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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 & commentatorRaksha Kumar - Mumbai-based journalistAtul Chaurasia - Executive editor, NewslaundryKapil Komireddi - Author, Malevolent RepublicOn our radar:Meta - the company that owns Facebook - is being sued for nearly $2bn for allegedly not adequately monitoring violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia on its platform. Producer Meenakshi Ravi has the details of the case.Changing the Face(book) of Italy’s media landscape: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, FanpageFrancesco Cancellato - Editor-in-chief, FanpageAlessio Cornia - Research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of OxfordSubscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/@AljazeeraEnglish#Aljazeeraenglish#News