Media In Democratisation
Media - print, audio, visual and internet - form a part of larger civil society entrusted with the duty to protect human rights, widen the domain of public sphere and...
Media Coverage Of Gorkha Quake
When earthquake-affected people came out of their home in search for open space following the Gorkha Earthquake measuring 7.8 magnitudes on April 25, 2015, the staffers of Radio Nepal entered...
Long shadows
The year since the Nepal Communist Party government came to power has seen a creeping squeeze on the media space, both on the Internet and in the mainstream press. The...
‘Govt to ensure security, respect for journos’
Kathmandu, May 3 Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota today said the government would ensure journalists’ security and respect. Addressing a programme organised by the Federation of...
Threats to press freedom have only increased in Nepal, says report
Nepal has become increasingly intolerant of journalists, with an increased number of attacks against them and growing digital surveillance of reporters, according to a new report by a civil liberty...
104 cases of press freedom violations in a year
Kathmandu, May 1 Incidents of press freedom violations continued unabated this year, affecting 158 journalists across the country, according to a report by Freedom Forum, an NGO. As per statistics...
Most Nepalis trust media: Survey
Lalitpur, Apr. 30: Most Nepalis trust the media, a survey shows. The final report of ‘A Survey of the Nepali People in 2018’ released amidst a programme in Patandhoka,...
FNJ to stage sit-in at DAO today
Kathmandu, April 17 The Federation of Nepali Journalists has announced that it will stage a sit-in protest in front of the District Administration Office, Kathmandu tomorrow, demanding an end to...
Nepal’s government is aggressively pursuing journalists and it could get worse under a new legislation
The detention of and subsequent charges filed against journalist Arjun Giri earlier this week under the Electronic Transaction Act for publishing a story about a local businessman has reignited the...
Journalist charged under electronic transaction act for reporting about financial fraud
Apr 15, 2019- An editor of a weekly was detained in Pokhara on Monday for publishing a story online about a local businessman, under laws intended to authenticate electronic transactions...
Digital literacy: New learning preferences
Out of the 32 grade 8 students present in the English language and literature class one day, everyone had done their assignment. This teacher was overjoyed as full homework turn-in...
An offer he couldn’t refuse
Feb 19, 2019- Last week, a satirical song directed at corruption, malpractices and social anomalies caught the attention of the government. But the song did not go down well with...
Inclusive Community Radios
On February 13, the country is celebrating the 8th World Radio Day. The United Nations Assembly had proclaimed the World Radio Day in 2011 in commemoration of the first broadcast...
Assessing media attack
Never have the Nepali news media come under such heavy fire in such frequency in public from both sides of the political divide as they experienced these past few months....
Press is completely free in Nepal – Prime Minister Oli
Davos (Switzerland, 23 January 2019 23) – Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said Nepal is a country that believes in democracy and where everything is under the Constitution. “We...
Facebook to invest funds to support journalism, hard-hit media houses
Facebook announced today that it would invest $300 million over three years to support journalism, with an emphasis on promoting hard-hit local news organisations. The move, on the heels of...
Future will be heard
What explains the success of audio-journalism in the era of streaming videos that were once feared to capture our attention and decimate every competitor including print media? “The ear is more...
Press freedom anxiety
Even decades after multi-party democracy, which promised all the inherent tenets of the system, was ushered in the country, institutionalising press freedom is still proving to be problematic. Although governments,...