Ownership & Funding
Who owns AN TV NEWS
This site is published by a small independent operation owned by the working editors who run it. There is no parent media group, no outside shareholder, no political party’s media arm, and no business conglomerate with interests in the sectors we cover. Nobody owns a share of this publication who is not doing the work, which is deliberate. It means there is no proprietor to ring the desk, and nowhere for us to hide: if AN TV NEWS publishes something indefensible, the people who own it published it.
The operation is registered where its founders live and work, and it files what the law of that place requires. We do not print the registration particulars on this page, largely because that material gets scraped and reused in impersonation attempts against readers. If you have a genuine reason to need them, such as serving a legal notice or verifying us for a transparency body, write to support@antv.news and we will send them.
No government money, no party, no campaign funding
We take no money from any government, ministry, department, agency or state body, in any country. That includes government display advertising, which is a meaningful revenue line for a lot of media and one we stay out of while we can afford to. A publication that covers politics cannot be on the payroll of the people it covers.
We have no affiliation with any political party, movement, campaign or candidate, and we accept nothing from political action committees, party media operations or organisations acting for them. Political and issue advertising that hides who is paying for it is refused outright. During an election we would rather take the revenue hit than let our inventory quietly become someone’s undeclared campaign spend.
Where the money comes from
Advertising is the primary source and, at present, close to all of it. Most is programmatic display filled through exchanges, with a smaller amount sold directly. Occasional clearly labelled sponsored posts and newsletter sponsorship make up the rest. The rules those sales run under, including the categories we refuse, are on our advertise page.
There is no paywall, no subscription and no reader payment of any kind. If we ever use affiliate links, where a purchase you make after clicking earns us a small commission, they will be marked in the story and described here, and they will never decide what we cover or what we recommend. We have no syndication or licensing income at present. If any of that changes, this page changes with it before the money is spent, not at the end of a financial year.
How advertising is kept off the story list
Our team is small, so the separation between money and journalism here is procedural rather than architectural. It holds because the rules are few and absolute. Advertiser identities are not circulated with the day’s story list. No advertiser is told what is coming. No advertiser sees a story before publication, and no story is shown to a buyer for comment as a courtesy.
When an advertiser asks for a story to be pulled or softened, the answer is no, and the request itself may become something we report. When a company that advertises with us becomes the subject of coverage, the story says so, and it is written as though the advertising did not exist. On programmatic inventory we usually do not even know who bought the impression, which is inconvenient for selling and useful for everyone else. How we source and what right of reply looks like are written out in our editorial standards.
Grants, donations and reader support
We accept no grants, donations or reader contributions at present. If we ever do, the terms will be set in advance and will not be negotiable. We will name the funder. We will describe the amount in a band that actually means something. We will publish the purpose and duration, and state whether the funder had any say in what we cover. A grant conditioned on covering a subject, or on approval of our output, is not one we can take.
Any funder providing a meaningful share of our annual income would be named here rather than in a footnote nobody reads. The disclosure goes up when the agreement is signed, not when the money arrives, because influence, where it exists, starts at the signature.
Conflicts of interest
The owners hold no stakes in the companies on our beat and take no paid work from political parties, governments, PR agencies or businesses we cover. Nobody here consults for an interest in the morning and edits its coverage in the afternoon. Where an editor has a family or financial interest in a story, they say so and hand it to someone else, and the handover is recorded, not agreed in a corridor.
Press trips, hosted stays and gifts are the routine offer in this business, particularly around technology launches, sports events and entertainment releases. We pay our own way or we do not go. If a trip is ever accepted on terms we think defensible, the story states who paid. Review copies and press accreditation for events we cover are accepted, and disclosed where our standards require.
Keeping this page honest
If the ownership changes, if an investor turns up, if we take a grant, or if a revenue stream grows into something that matters, this page is updated first, before an announcement anywhere else. Earlier versions are kept and sent on request. The wider account of who we are and how the newsroom runs sits on our about page, and errors here are fixed the way errors in our reporting are, which our corrections policy describes.
If something on this page reads as thin or evasive to you, say so. Write to support@antv.news and ask the specific question. Transparency pages have a way of ageing into wallpaper, and the fastest way to keep this one accurate is a reader who reads it properly.
Last updated: August 2026
