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केही नेपाली समाचार सञ्चार नीतिको मस्यौदा बनाउन समिति गठन काठमाडौं, माघ २० – सरकारले सञ्चार नीतिको मस्यौदा बनाउन समिति गठन गरेको छ । मन्त्रीपरिषदको बुधबारको वैठकले काशीराज दाहालको संयोजकत्वमा समिति गठन गरेको हो । समितिको सदस्यमा प्रेस काउन्सिल नेपालका अध्यक्ष बोर्णबहादुर कार्की र नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघका अध्यक्ष डा. महेन्द्र विष्ट हुनुहुन्छ । अरु सदस्य भने सूचना तथा संचार मन्त्रालयले पछि नियुक्ति गर्ने सूचना तथा सञ्चार मन्त्री शेरधन राईले जानकारी दिनुभयो । समितिले अघिल्लो सरकारका पालामा तयार पारिएको नयाँ सञ्चार नीतिको मस्यौदा पुनरावलोकन गरी नयाँ मस्यौदा तयार पार्नेेछ ।  http://ujyaaloonline.com/news/53084/ उच्चस्तरीय सञ्चार समितिलाई पूर्णता क्mाठमाडौँ, ३ फागुन । सरकारले नेपालको सङ्घीय संविधानको मर्म र भावनानुरुप विद्यमान सूचना तथा सञ्चार नीति परिमार्जन गर्न गठित उच्चस्तरीय सुझाव समितिलाई पूर्णता दिएको छ । मन्त्रिपरिषद्को गत माघ २० गतेको बैठकको निर्णयबाट आमसञ्चार कानुनका ज्ञाता काशीराज दाहालको अध्यक्षतामा सो समिति गठन भएको थियो । समितिमा बाँकी सदस्य चयनको जिम्मेवारी प...

Being a student of media studies, I am always interested in debates on media policy process. I have conducting research on media policy making in Nepal.  The new government has once again shown interested to formulate media policy by establishing a High Level Communications Committee under Kashi Raj Dahal on 4 February 2016. Here are news about the formation  of the committee and its reaction. Hope it will be useful to others as well: Cabinet forms panel to draft media policy Published: February 03, 2016 2:15 pm On:  Kathmandu KATHMANDU : The Cabinet on Wednesday formed a three-member panel to draft the Media Policy. A meeting of the Council of Ministers formed the committee under the leadership of legal expert Kashiraj Dahal. President of Federation of Nepali Journalists Mahendra Bista and Chairman of Press Council Nepal Borna Bahadur Karki are members of the panel. The Ministry of Information and Communications, however, can add members to it whenever nec...

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Broadband internet kept at its core should be seen for what it is: an important tool, not a miraculous solution for all the ills in society -  SHAILESH PANDEY ,  HARSHA MAN MAHARJAN & YOGESH RAJ Aug 28, 2015- The draft National Information and Communication Technology (NICT) Policy 2015, floated for public discussion by Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) on August 4, repeats the flawed visions about the miraculous power of ICTs. We call for the policy to be more evidence-based. The NICT Policy aims to supersede the related IT Policy 2010, which envisages the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) as the lead agency. Accordingly, DoIT has floated a draft implementation plan ‘National IT Roadmap.’ The NCIT Policy, prepared by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), proposes to restructure both the ministries as well as the NTA. The contention over jurisdictio...

 - Post Report, Kathmandu Aug 18, 2015-  Kantipur Media Group (KMG) on Tuesday night launched a new futuristic digital news platform, Ekantipur that hopes to revolutionise reading experience for its subscribers. The new platform hosts Ekantipur app--an upgraded version of the KMG application, seven websites of The Kathmandu Post, the Kantipur daily, Nepal, Nari, Saptahik, Radio Kantipur and Kantipur Television, and a mobile SMS news subscription service. The platform was developed following two years of back-end research spearheaded by Kantipur Digital Corp (KDC), KMG’s digital wing. The Kathmandu Post’s digital edition is available at kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. The new website will give readers a richer experience through multi-media and other exclusive contents. As well as providing contents from all the outlets of KMG, the Ekantipur app will enable users to view epapers in high resolution. This is the third digital upgrade for The Kathmandu Post and its sister...

I have realized links of some of news and article available online break later due to different reasons. Here I will post entire news, article and give full credit to the original source. My intention is to get all materials on Nepali media in one place.

Introduction This research brief summarizes the findings of a review of policies related to Universal Connectivity (UC) in Nepal. Here UC means connectivity of the internet using different devices such as mobile, computer, and other internet-based technologies (IBTs). The brief shows that Nepal’s UC-related policies envisage both general and specific roles for the technologies related to IBTs in realizing the country as a well-connected, knowledge-based society. The policy phraseology has enabled both the state and the private sector to mobilize huge resources to create new institutions, burgeoning market spaces, and influential discourses in the last two decades. The review undertaken, however, suggests interventions are needed and there are opportunities for much more grounded policies to ensure that existing inequalities are not reproduced in both providing access and the use of digital technologies. This brief introduces, in the first section, the UC policy landscap...

Harsha Man Maharjan INTRODUCTION This chapter demonstrates the limitations in existing schemes of periodization in Nepali journalism historiography that are based mainly on political-constitutional changes. These schemes take regime changes (Poudyal 2027 v.s.; Devkota 2033 v.s.; Nepal 2055 v.s.; Dahal 2070 v.s.; Pokharel 1994; Regmi and Kharel 2002) and new constitutional provisions (Acharya 2070 v.s.; Onta 2001, 2002) as triggers which set significant alternations in organization and practices of journalism in Nepal. While some of the organizational changes in media were shaped by these external factors, existing literature lacks concrete evidence relating these factors to the changes in everyday journalistic practices. The essay examines genealogies of the specific orientation of the journalists and of their characterization of the powerful across the sharp regime changes of the 1990s. It shows that professional journalism that conventional historiography sees as the effect of...

     By Harsha Man Maharjan Day by day the number of online news portals is increasing because it is easy to start. Having two three computers or laptops and two three journalists are enough to start up.  Any eligible person who dreams to have media can start it in a shoe string. Many online news portals are sprouting without proper planning on their economic sustainability. But Setopati, a digital patrika which was started on 1 April 2012 sought suggestions from its readers or visitors for its appropriate business model and came up with a mixed model of subscription and advertisement. This initiated a debate for and against Setopati’s plan. So, this is the right time to discuss about the appropriate business models for Nepali online news portals in light of models being practiced in the world.   Media products are different from ordinary products as often they don’t get used up even if people consumed it. Media economic scholar Gillian Doyle uses wo...

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...