After 15 years navigating the dynamic world of media across London, Sydney, and Melbourne, journalist and TV producer Troy Nankervis is working with a colleague on a new venture - a podcast dedicated to men's wellness titled Working on It, Real Talk for Modern Men.

Gas offer, cost of power, 'brain rot', U16 social media ban, 'Foxes in the Capital', burning issue, doctors' fees face pressure, 'pure evil', and 'not a bad Root after all' - that's all in today's news, plus more. Stories and pictures by Jackson Barrett, Rebekah Cavanagh, Mark Buttler, Jason South, Lucy Macken, Paul Garvey, Natasha Robinson, Ellie Dudley, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Louis Douvis, Josh Taylor and Petra Stock, Paul Smith, Ashleigh Gleeson, Damon Johnston, Natasha Robinson, Ellie Dudley, James Dowling, Cara Waters, Keiran Rooney and Chip Le Grand.

The Kalamassery police have registered a case against a senior official of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) and the owner of Malayalam news channel Reporter for allegedly tampering with television ratings data.

The Editors Guild of India (EGI), in a statement released on December 3, 2025, expressed deep concern over the raid conducted by the Special Investigation Agency (SIA) at the locked premises of the Kashmir Times office in Jammu. The raid was reportedly justified on the basis of grave charges levelled against the newspaper’s editor, Anuradha Bhasin, including allegations of “disseminating terrorist and secessionist ideology” and “challenging the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India” through print and digital content. The Guild noted that no credible evidence has been presented to support these claims.

Navneet Kumar Sehgal has resigned from his post as Chairman of Prasar Bharati, India’s public broadcaster. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) confirmed that his resignation, dated December 2, has been accepted with immediate effect under Section 7(6) of the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990.

Lead: The rupee’s slip past 90 a dollar signals a deeper churn — tariffs and FPI exits leaving investors scan for the next shock. Spotlight: Sunali Khatun was deported while pregnant, pushed across borders, jailed and still pleading to return home so her child can be born Indian. Tech: OpenAI seeks TCS partnership, 500 MW of HyperVault compute, and a push to co-build agentic enterprise AI. Sports: Aiden Markram’s 110 and Proteas' chase of 359, overshadowed Indian centuries from Kohli and Gaikwad. Entertainment: Dhurandhar seals 65,000 Day-1 tickets so far — with hopes pinned on a last-minute surge.

Australian born, British broadcaster Brian Hayes who was a pioneer of talkback and phone in radio in the UK on Capital Radio, the BBC and LBC, has died at the age of 87.

Sanal Potti, senior journalist, former television presenter, and PR manager at SCMS College, passed away on Tuesday, December 2, following health-related issues. He was 55.

India Today is hosting a Moscow Roundtable prior to President Putin’s upcoming visit to India.

Mrig Sight Media has bagged the public relations and digital marketing mandate for Durakraft Extrusions Pvt. Ltd.

Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year. Ferguson and Gillett won three Walkley categories: TV/Video: Current Affairs Short, TV/Video: Current Affairs Long, and All Media: Investigative Journalism (the latter two with colleagues Ben Butler and Lara Sonnenschein). In addition, they were finalists in the All Media: Coverage of a Major Event category and Scoop of the Year.

Business matters, 'rates fears', overseas floods, housing black hole, cigarette profits up in smoke, home truths, and cure for the ages, all this and more in today's news roundup. Pictures and stories by David Rowe, Anthony Macdonald, Lauren Sams, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Michael Smith, Nick Lenaghan, and Carrie LaFrenz, James Thomson, Robyn Riley, Broede Carmody, Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston, James O'Doherty, John Kehoe, Ben Packham, Elizabeth Pike and Joe Kelly, Amanda Hodge and Dean Septiari, Geoff Chambers, and Matthew Cranston.

A Parliamentary panel has recommended stronger measures to tackle the growing menace of deepfakes and misinformation, including cancelling the accreditation of journalists or creators found guilty of publishing or telecasting fake news. The proposal was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, December 2, as part of the report Review of Mechanism to Curb Fake News.

In a moving act of compassion, two journalists in Odisha’s Cuttack district stepped in to perform the final rites of an elderly woman after no villagers came forward to cremate her.

The Bombay High Court will begin final hearings in the appeals filed by gangster Chhota Rajan and eight others from January 3, 2026, as they challenge their conviction in the 2011 murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey (J Dey).