During the recent program organized by the Press Coucil on
22 september 2013, Kishor Shrestha, from the Council informed that there is not only investigative
journalism, but also cut-paste journalism in Nepal. He was referring to hubahu journalism
in print media, but this kind of journalism is popular in online news portals
too.
The way online media are practicing this is different from
what tv and radio are doing. Usually FM radio and television stations are
reading selected portion of the news from newspapers. But some online news
portals are lifting matters from websites from print media. For example in the
issue of Nepal magazine on 22 September, Sitaram Baral has wrote a long cover story on the conflict inside the family of Gyanendra Shah. This reporting
was uploaded on ekantipur next day and other news portals like http://muldharnews.com, http://topnepalnews.com, http://realkhabar.com, etc started to upload this
article citing the source, Nepal magazine. None of them mentioned who penned
that reporting.
I think there is urgent need of the guideline on using whole
materials from other online media.
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