Happy Deepavali from Team NL-TNM! Thanks for lighting the way

Happy Deepavali!

We hope you’re sparkling in brilliance and radiating the light of independence. For us at Newslaundry and The News Minute, Deepavali came early.

Our celebrations kicked off in the first week of October when, for the very first time, The Media Rumble travelled to Bengaluru for two days of sessions, workshops and presentations. We had incredible conversations on media and AI, climate change and cinema, war journalism and the future of news as we know it.

Most importantly, we had dozens of conversations with the subscribers who turned up en masse to attend, meet us, and share feedback. This was their event just as much as it was ours, and they made it a crashing success. And there’s more to come. This was the eighth edition of The Media Rumble and we’ve got bigger, brighter, shinier plans for the future.

To get a taste of what it was like, here is a quick recap.

And this is the first session of The Media Rumble, streaming now on our YouTube channel:

You can watch all other sessions from TMR here.

A subscription to Newslaundry and The News Minute is your ticket to all our events – this over and above our ground reports, analysis, podcasts, shows and other material that’s exclusively for subscribers. If you were at The Media Rumble 2025, we hope you loved it!

And if you are not part of your tribe yet, you should be. Let us sweeten the deal. Click here to get a whopping discount on a Newslaundry-The News Minute subscription. It’s less than the cost of one big Swiggy order for your Diwali party, and the returns are much larger. 

Perhaps the festive season is making us sentimental or it’s all the firecracker smoke in our eyes, but we’re proud of the community we’ve built. And we want you to be a part of it. Because we are stronger together, and we are strongest with you.

Happy Deepavali!