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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...