mediaharsha

By Harsha Man Maharjan Note: This is the draft of my article I sent to  Republica  on 2 October 2013 but remained unpublished till today. So I have decided to upload it on my blog. Though online news portals are mushrooming in Nepal, their content and operation show they are in fledgling state and are fraught with problems. Yes, the demands of these portals are increasing day by day as these new media have advantages over traditional media-they are highly interactive or participatory and instant. Among all, online media made possible multimedia technology marrying text, audio and video. None the less many of Nepali online portals could not shoulder the burden of providing instant and interesting news. Either they lift news/features from online or other sources with or without proper courtesy or update other’s news which is a kind of tinkering. It is difficult to present the exact picture of online news portal in Nepal as no authority has the informatio...