On social media, Nepalis are forever at war
Arguing on the internet, according to someone on the internet, is a lot like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how skilled you are at the game, the pigeon is going...
IFJ draws attention to journalists being arrested in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the incident in which nine journalists were arrested for protesting job losses, in Kathmandu, on Monday. NPU and FNJ leaders protesting job...
Pool System For Media
Exclusive stories, scoops, and indepth, interpretive and investigative reporting all echo professional journalism’s desire to deliver newsworthy contents to audiences of varied tastes. Facutual content alone does not define news; it is...
How the Nepali press took a fictional spy thriller for fact
A book written by a former Indian intelligence officer has sent Nepali and Indian social media into a frenzy, with wild theories about how India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)...
Make media houses women-friendly: Stakeholders
Kathmandu, August 27 Working journalists, persons from media fraternity and stakeholders have stressed the need to create women-friendly environment and infrastructure in media houses. Speaking at a programme organised by...
Not So Social Media
Today’s media is not what it used to be. Communication in the past was simple and meaningful. Nowadays communication is much easier because of technology, social media evolution and the...
The dark underbelly of social media
Over the past decade, technology has leapt in an immeasurable and indefinable way. People who once depended mainly on three sources to acquire information—newspapers, radio or TV—have now switched to...
Social Media & Teens
There was a time when creating a Facebook account could be a very serious matter in the family. The parents wanted the children to concentrate on their studies and termed...
Away from a society that judges, Nepali women are turning to Facebook for help
Sangeeta Dhakal runs a women’s clothing store in Bagbazar. But on most days, her phone buzzes with more distress messages from women than the online orders she receives from customers....
Half of Nepal prefer to access the internet via their mobile
Out of the 63 percent of Nepali connected to the internet, nearly 50 percent do so via their mobile phones as telecom service providers continue to expand their 3G and...
How Nepal’s communications minister went from being a fierce reporter to a hardline politician against free press
For Gokul Baskota, the last twelve months have been particularly busy. Since taking the helm of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, which had been without a leader for...
Pranesh Gautam released on general date
The Kathmandu District Court released comedian Pranesh Gautam on a general date on Sunday. Chief of the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, Senior Superintendent of Police Uttam Raj Subedi confirmed the...
Media barred from covering SAGGC meet
Kathmandu, May 16 Chair of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives Shashi Shrestha today barred mediapersons from covering the panel’s meeting, incurring the wrath...
Three journalists are under investigation over publishing news about the Dalai Lama
Three journalists at the Rastriya Samachar Samiti, Nepal’s national news agency, are being probed for disseminating a news item regarding the Dalai Lama. RSS journalists working at the English desk...
Role of journalism vital for attaining prosperity, says President Bhandari
Rastriya Samachar Samiti Kathmandu, May 7 President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has said that the journalism sector should be committed to helping the national journey to prosperity in view of the...
Social Media Advertising
When I was in the college and university, advertising methods such as search engine advertising, social media advertising, or internet advertising in general, was not the part of the curriculum....
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...