News Broadcasting
CNN’s Renay San Miguel gets Cybersecurity journalism award
WASHINGTON D.C.: CNN Headline News journalist Renay San Miguel received the Award of Merit from Carnegie Mellon University and the Newseum. His online cybersecurity columns, which were featured on the CNN Web site and the Headline News Web page last year were cited.
Carnegie Mellon and the Newseum established the awards this year to recognise journalists who have covered online security issues since 9/11.
San Miguel has over 24 years of journalism experience and is based in CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. He co-anchors with Kathleen Kennedy. During Operation Iraqi Freedom earlier this year San Miguel helped staff the CNN/US military desk. In that role, he interviewed CNN military analysts and outlined military operations using maps and satellite imagery.
San Miguel also participated in Headline News’ coverage of Operation Enduring Freedom last year.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
