This book investigates the deep entanglements connecting news media with the world they represent. Drawing from the archive of notable news events in Tamil Nadu, a state that has long led the way in media-saturated politics in India, it seeks to understand reciprocal energies animating relationships between the events being reported in the news and events of news coverage. In doing so, this ethnographic history develops a concept of “the news event” to grasp moments when the news itself can be said to become an event in its own right. Political sovereignty is thoroughly mediated by the production of news.