Govt forms Advertisement Board
KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 10 Based on the Advertisement (Regulation) Act 2019, the government has formed the Advertisement Board, which started operating from Wednesday. With an aim to regulate, monitor and operate...
Nepali media amidst COVID-19: a two-front battle for journalists
Work more hours. Never take weekends or holidays. Don't necessarily expect your employer to pay you. If you need to survive, do a side business. But you have to deliver...
Provincial and local governments are coming up with their own set of laws to limit free press and expression
Provincial and local governments are following the federal government’s path of formulating regressive media laws targeted at curtailing the right to free press and freedom of expression, according to the...
Minister’s ‘dignified’ journalism jibe draws flak
Every time the government has come up with announcements of its intention to curtail free speech and bring new media-related laws, it has been dragged into controversy. The latest of...
Two Dozen Foreign Channels Come Under Clean Feed System
Kathmandu, Oct. 30: Advertisement-free programmes have started broadcasting to Nepali televisions with the implementation of clean feed policy on foreign television channels. Foreign channels have started broadcasting as per the...
Media sector welcomes government decision to implement clean feed policy
Nepali media sector has welcomed the government decision regarding the implementation of clean feed policy. In a joint statement on Thursday, Nepal Media Society, Broadcasting Association of Nepal and Association...
Clean Feed Policy To Come Into Effect From October 23
By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, Oct. 15: The Ministry for Communication and Information Technology (MoCIT) said on Wednesday that the clean feed policy would come into effect from October 23,...
Media Alliance Nepal formed to make media industry impartial and accountable
KATHMANDU, Sept 23: Media Alliance Nepal has been formed with an objective of making Nepal’s media industry impartial, neutral and accountable to the public. At a function in Kathmandu on...
Tearing Through Infodemic Is A Tough Job
Kathmandu, Sept. 16: In addition to a pandemic, the coronavirus has also caused an infodemic – a phenomenon where an enormous volume of misinformation is released to the public, according...
More Than 95% Internet Users Receive Disinformation
By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, Sept. 14: Most Nepali internet users are exposed to disinformation, a survey by the Centre for Media Research – Nepal (CMR-Nepal) revealed. The Nepal Twitter...
Journalists Complain Of Dismissal, Salary Cuts Amid COVID Crisis
Kathmandu, July 28: Many stories of job lost and troubles being faced by working journalists are making rounds after the government imposed lockdown to prevent and control the COVID-19 infection....
Advertising Industry Loses Rs. 6 Billion To COVID-19 Pandemic
Kathmandu, July 26: The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has severely hit the advertising business in the country with estimated losses of about Rs. 6 billion. According to the Advertising...
Is New Delhi using Indian media to attack Nepal as it grows closer to China?
“What is going on with Nepal ? Have the Chinese completely taken over?” On July 9, an Indian television anchor launched into a tirade with those words, at the opening...
What can Nepal do about inaccurate reporting on Indian media?
“Media plays an important role in moulding public opinion and developing better understanding between countries. Objective reporting so as not to jeopardise friendly bilateral relations is therefore desirable,” reads one...
New public service broadcasting bill draws criticism
Lawmakers and mediapersons have criticised provisions in a new government-sponsored bill that envisages the merger between the state radio and tv. The Public Service Broadcasting bill, registered in Parliament on...
Indian Media Stoop Too Low To Undermine Nepal-China Ties
Kathmandu, July 10: Objectivity, fairness and credibility are the fundamental principles of ethical journalism but some Indian media seem to have kept these principles and code of conduct at bay...
Is Nepali media failing to abide by ethical journalistic standards in its quest for clicks and breaking news?
Hours after Nepal reported its first Covid-19 death, a video began to circulate on social media, showing the body of the dead woman being unloaded in front of the electronic...
Upper House endorses Bill on Special Service allowing phone tapping without court order
The National Assembly on Wednesday endorsed the Bill on Special Service allowing the intelligence agencies to intercept the conversations between the ‘suspects’ using electronic medium, which the legal experts have...
In locked down Nepal, print is still king
After Nepal went into COVID-19 lockdown on 24 March, some of the country’s main newspaper groups stopped their print editions and went only-digital. But, with the likelihood that the lockdown...
UNESCO underscores role of radio in Nepal’s development
Kathmandu, February 12 The UNESCO-Nepal has appealed to concerned stakeholders to adopt media-related policies to ensure conducive environment for press freedom. “To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by leaving no...