What Huduku’s outlets are, and aren’t
A count on Huduku is a count of what Huduku saw, not of all the news.
Huduku shows headlines from a list of outlets chosen by hand: English and Kannada newspapers, news sites and magazines, TV channels’ websites and YouTube channels, fact-checkers and official publishers. The full list is on the outlets page.
It isn’t all of India’s news. Huduku reads only what outlets put in their public feeds. A feed may leave stories out, arrive hours late, or stop working. It has no TV broadcasts, radio or social media posts, and few small local papers. Its public edition is in English and Kannada only.
So any count on Huduku is a count of what Huduku saw. “Six outlets carried it” means six of Huduku’s outlets, in their feeds, while Huduku was reading them. After a while Huduku keeps only some of the older headlines, so counts for past days are smaller than they were.
Every collection of news is a sample like this, chosen by someone. The question isn’t whether a sample is complete, because none is, but what it lets you say.
On Huduku
The outlets page lists every outlet, its language and its kind. Searches list outlets whose feeds aren’t working apart from the rest, because Huduku can’t speak for them. “First seen by Huduku” is when Huduku first read a headline, not when the outlet published it.
Questions for you
- What can you say from these headlines, and what can’t you?
- Which outlets would you add to answer your question, and how might the count change?