Media Policy Op-Eds

News Media At The Crossroads

Scores of daily papers have folded up in the past three decades. Among the earliest and longest-lasting daily mastheads, Samaj, The Commoner and the Motherland closed shop years ago. In...

P Kharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   पुस ४, २०८० गते

Nepali Women In Changed Media Landscape

In Nepal, the depiction of women in media, particularly television commercials, has long been a topic of discussion and critique. The Nepali media landscape has often been accused of objectifying...

Tulasi Acharya/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   कार्तिक २५, २०८० गते

The role of the press council in the digital age

Nepali media is going through a difficult time. Traditional media or legacy media are struggling to continue their publication, while digital media is growing at an unprecedented level. For instance,...

Balkrishna Basnet/ Annapurna Express प्रकाशित मिति   अशोज १०, २०८० गते

Ensure Labour Rights Of Journalists

In a recent Facebook post, Janmadev Jaisi, one of media rights activists in Nepal, published that Jyoti (name changed) and Bipana (name changed) got justice. As he was constantly looking...

Umesh Pokharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   बैशाख २१, २०८० गते

How proposed Telecommunication Bill violates people’s right to privacy

The government’s persistent attempts to increase surveillance on its citizens have raised concern time and time again. The most recent outcry is due to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology’s proposed...

Anjila Shrestha / Nepal Live प्रकाशित मिति   चैत्र २५, २०७९ गते

Press for people

  This year, Nepal leapfrogged to 76 among 180 countries, up from last year’s 106, in the Press Freedom Index. Reporters without Borders ranked India 150, down from 142 last year. Pakistan...

Sahina Shrestha/ NepaliTimes प्रकाशित मिति   असार १३, २०७९ गते

Gravitating to your biases

The advent of the internet could arguably be called one of the greatest inventions of the modern era. We’ve seen whole businesses and industries that seemed impossible to imagine even...

The Kathmandu Post प्रकाशित मिति   फाल्गुन २४, २०७८ गते

Three Decades Of Free Media

Dr. Kundan Aryal Three decades ago, Nepali months of Magh and Phalgun were full of political events in Kathmandu. Political parties, civil society, intellectuals and journalists were bracing for the...

Kundan Aryal/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   माघ १०, २०७८ गते

Infiltration For False Filtration

Public perception of the news media as an independent, fair, professional, regular and reliable fount of newsworthy information is deeply entrenched. At least that it’s what the general public expects...

P Kharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   साउन २५, २०७८ गते

NTV’s Quest For Global Outreach

Does Nepal need a separate television channel with the contents designed for the global audience? Is the country capable to start up and continue a worldwide television channel? These questions...

Kundan Aryal/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   असार ११, २०७८ गते

Role Of Audience In Media Accountability

Can audience be a part of media accountability in Nepal? I think so. This role of audience is possible more in the digital than in the print world. Media accountability...

Harsha Man Maharjan/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   जेष्ठ २३, २०७८ गते

Global Media Ethics In COVID-19 Pandemic

IT is still appears to be a distant dream to formulate a set of principles and policies for equitable and responsible dissemination of information worldwide. Global journalism is yet to...

Kundan Aryal/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   जेष्ठ २, २०७८ गते

Sifting Facts From Rumours

Around a hundred years ago, Guardian editor CP Scott had put his life-long learning in a sentence: Comment is free…but facts are sacred. However, over the years, Scott's doctrine of...

Kundan Aryal/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   चैत्र २, २०७७ गते

A Pioneer Photographer

February 24, coronation 1975 was the biggest media event for foreign journalists. More than 50 heads of state and government, princes, princesses, ministers and special representatives attended the spectacle. Educated,...

P Kharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   फाल्गुन २४, २०७७ गते

Beneath & Beyond Media Capture

Even as Western academics and political analysts discuss a decline in public trust in democracy, hardly anything much is debated on any likely link with the news media for the...

P Kharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   फाल्गुन १९, २०७७ गते

Media fails to uphold its role as watchdog

The year 2020 was unprecedented. The coronavirus pandemic severely affected all walks of life, including the media and journalism. Nepal was no exception and experienced the same predicament owing to...

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya/ The Kathmandu Post प्रकाशित मिति   माघ ५, २०७७ गते

Clean Feed Policy Boost To Nepali Advertisement Sector

The issue of clean feed provision that has been raised by the advertisement professionals in Nepal for about past 12 to 15 years has finally been implemented by the government...

Nabaraj Kaushik/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   माघ ५, २०७७ गते

Public Access To News Media Data In Nepal

The data related to news media are important for advertisers, news media and the public. Due to this, many countries have mechanisms to collect such data and make them public....

Harsha Man Maharjan/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   पुस २०, २०७७ गते

The Year 2020: Media And Beyond

For global media, the year 2020 was the year of an extraordinary flow of news of loss, disruption, stress and plight. The real-life stories of the year were the ingredients...

Kundan Aryal/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   पुस २०, २०७७ गते

Media Manufactured In India

Mahatma Gandhi mentioned three major tasks of the press: “One of the objects of the newspaper is to understand the popular feeling and give expression to it; another is to...

P Kharel/ The Rising Nepal प्रकाशित मिति   मंसिर १६, २०७७ गते