OpIndia
OpIndia logo
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish, Hindi
OwnerAadhyaasi Media and Content Services
Founder(s)
  • Rahul Raj
  • Kumar Kamal
Editors
  • Nupur J Sharma (English)
  • Ajit Bharti (Hindi)
CEORahul Roushan
URLwww.opindia.com/about/
LaunchedDecember 2014

OpIndia is an India news portal founded in 2014 by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal, which also claims to be a fact-checking website.[2]

History

OpIndia was founded in December 2014[3] by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal as a current affairs and news website. In October 2016, it was acquired by Kovai Media Private Limited, a Coimbatore-based company of T. V. Mohandas Pai that also owns the magazine Swarajya.[4][5]

Raj left OpIndia over a disagreement with the site's editorial stance. OpIndia disassociated from Kovai Media and became a separate entity.[4] Rahul Roushan was appointed the CEO of OpIndia,[6] and Nupur J Sharma became the editor.[5]

Reception

In May 2019, the IFCN rejected OpIndia's application to be accredited as a fact-checker.[7] While noting partial compliance on a number of categories, the IFCN rejected the application on grounds of political partisanship and lack of transparency, and raised concerns over questionable fact-checking methodologies.[8] The rejection disqualified OpIndia from fact-checking contracts with web properties owned by Facebook and Google.[7] In response, Sharma criticised the IFCN assessment and urged for acceptance of outlets with "declared ideological leanings".[7]

References

  1. ^ "opindia.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. ^ Bhushan, Sandeep (25 January 2017). "Arnab's Republic, Modi's Ideology". The Wire. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  3. ^ Chadha, Kalyani; Bhat, Prashanth (14 February 2019). "The media are biased: Exploring online right wing responses to mainstream news media in India". In Rao, Shakuntala (ed.). Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives. Oxford University Press. pp. 115–140. ISBN 9780199490820. Retrieved 12 May 2020 – via ResearchGate.
  4. ^ a b Matharu, Aleesha. "Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming". The Wire. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b Manish, Sai (7 April 2018). "Right vs Wrong: Arundhati Roy, Mohandas Pai funding fake news busters". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ "OpIndia CEO Rahul Roushan calls for mob violence, deletes tweet". Alt News. 17 February 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Ananth, Venkat (7 May 2019). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  8. ^ Kaur, Kanchan (11 February 2019). "OpIndia.com: Conclusions and recommendations". International Fact-Checking Network. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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