While social platforms has emerged as a vital tool for crime control for Nepal Police, it has also given rise to incidents of cybercrime. Post Illustration Purushottam Poudel Published at...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...