Journalism is admired for its public-interest mission, but low pay is pushing people out or holding them back.

Aaj Tak organised the Nirmaan Bharat Summit 2025 on September 21 at the Hyatt Regency in New Delhi.

Fiona Ellis-Jones is a highly experienced journalist, editor and newsreader and now heads ARN’s news gathering journalists and newsrooms, running a team of over 60. She explains on Insider live how Public Relations professionals can get their stories in front of the ARN audience.

Albo is in New York at the UN, and not all the papers are happy about that, AI threatens emissions targets, triple-zero woes, and the Brownlow Medals shine, while across town a grab and run on a city store captured on camera.

The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) has re-elected Rajat Sharma as president for the 2025–2026 term at its Board meeting on September 19, 2025. M.V. Shreyams Kumar, Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing, has been named Vice-President; Anuradha Prasad Shukla, Chairperson & Managing Director, News24 Broadcast India, has been appointed Honorary Treasurer; and Annie Joseph will continue as Secretary General.

New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) has received a major relief after tax authorities dropped a Rs 17.27 crore demand raised earlier this year under the Central GST, Delhi GST and Integrated GST Acts.

Trump’s $100k H-1B fee sparked panic until the White House clarified it hits only new applicants in 2026, easing some fears. Modi’s “Bachat Utsav” GST revamp promises 2.5 lakh crore in savings and urges Indians to buy swadeshi. On the field, Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill floored Pakistan with a 105-run stand, while Smriti Mandhana smashed the second-fastest Women’s ODI ton. Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu urged H-1B Indians to return home, calling it a chance to rebuild and power India’s tech future Aryan Khan’s debut The Ba**ds of Bollywood* hit #1 on Netflix, with Bobby Deol and Lakshya relishing fan love.

Launched on January 7, 2024, The Migration Story is an independent newsroom founded by journalists Roli Srivastava and Anuradha Nagaraj. The goal: move migration coverage from crisis-driven bursts to continuous, ground-reported journalism at a time when climate stress, precarious work, and policy shifts are reshaping lives across India.

Optus CEO's future on the line, there are crime stories aplenty in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Albo lands in the US after Australian government supports a Palestinian state, and a car thief caught on camera at the wheel of a stolen...police car. Stories by Andrew Hough, Mark Buttler, Chris Vedelago and Marta Pascual Juanola, Kate McClymont, Perry Duffin and Riley Walter, James Willis, Peter Jenkins, Madeleine Bower and James Morrow, Jared Lynch, Joanna Panagopoulos, Tom Rabe and Simon Evans, Paul Smith, and Nicola Smith.

Jafar Abdurrahim, 33, a sub-editor with Siraj Daily, died on Wednesday while under treatment at a private hospital following a road accident on Saturday, the newspaper reported.

Rahul Gandhi doubled down on his “vote chori” allegations, accusing CEC of shielding those deleting voters’ names in Karnataka’s Aland constituency. India is weighing the sudden the Saudi-Pak mutual defence pact, with HT noting Delhi’s promise to guard national security amid Riyadh’s tilt toward Islamabad. Ashwini Vaishnaw pledged a September 28 AI framework after a PM Modi deepfake sparked alarm. Neeraj Chopra stumbled to 8th-place and Sachin Yadav rose to 4th at the javelin worlds. Meanwhile, Aryan Khan’s debut series The Ba**ds of Bollywood* has dropped on Netflix as bold, promising to show a mirror to industry's vanity.

Nine publications The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will carry this year's Traveller awards special issue in their Sunday editions.

'Magic puddings', 'emission impossible', 'shocks to the system', no gas cookers, electric cars, and chargers on every corner, plus trillions of dollars in benefits, or in costs, and some figures are 'state secrets' - take your pick this morning as climate change and emissions simmer and fume across the dailies' front pages. Stories by Nick O'Malley, Nick Newling, James Massola, Ryan Cropp, Matthew Benns, Graham Lloyd, Perry Williams, Eric Johnstone, and Colin Packham, Greg Brown and Geoff Chambers, Phillip Coorey, Rhianna Mitchell and Katina Curtis, Paul Starick, Dan Walsh.

Aaj Tak, part of the India Today Group, has been named the most-viewed Hindi news channel on Instagram, capturing 51 per cent of total Instagram actions among a custom set of Hindi news competitors, per Comscore Social (August 2025).

The Editors Guild of India on September 17 expressed “deep concern” over a Rohini District Court order in Adani Enterprises Ltd. vs Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Others. The court granted an ex parte “John Doe” injunction restraining nine named journalists and organisations — and unnamed others — from publishing or circulating allegedly “unverified, unsubstantiated and ex facie defamatory” material about the company.