Published On: June 5, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Do intellectual property principles or fair use policies only apply to Western creators and producers? It is hard to believe AFP and Getty Images can be so negligent about their professional ethics
Published On: May 22, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Drop the draft bill, don’t even consider revising it. Rather, force the media community to form their own independent press standards mechanism. Let them call it whatever name they choose
Published On: July 4, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Most alarming and disturbing were videos that featured khukuri-wielding youths threatening to behead Shrestha
Published On: June 20, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
There is little difference among news channels in story selection and display. They differ only in explanation of their decisions
Published On: May 23, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Relentless coverage of preliminary vote tallies and leads with a few hundred votes counted was perhaps the most farcical
Published On: May 9, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Technology is reconfiguring our way of life, unleashing a cultural revolution that even our most revolutionary politicians couldn’t achieve
Published On: April 11, 2017 03:00 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Online journalists understand media owners’ reluctance to invest. Why do more when the online business is already very profitable?
Published On: March 28, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
We are always looking for new internet haunts but during our search we often find online tags that are fragmented, jumbled and confusing
Published On: March 14, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Governmental editorial directives on rising above ideological divides, instead of edifying journalists, end up irritating them
Published On: February 28, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
My interest was piqued when I noticed a number of our local tabloids, as slim as four pages, using the label “national daily”
Published On: February 14, 2017 01:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
General media users and audiences are still viewed largely in the nineteenth century mentality filtered through “letters to the editor”
Published On: January 31, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Despite surveys suggesting low trust in social media, audiences engage more with Facebook and Twitter rants than a serious piece of journalism
Published On: January 17, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Our media are at crossroads and absence of timely analyses of trends and developments makes the scene rather chaotic
Published On: January 3, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Our approach to media writing remains largely willy-nilly and depends on hard work of few individuals (or institutions) who love what they do
Published On: December 20, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Why do I write? Because there is the editorial page. And I write for fun, not for the paltry remuneration
Published On: December 5, 2016 11:28 PM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Children today are fish in technological waters. Media education should thus be part of the curricula from primary school level
Published On: November 22, 2016 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
A young democracy, Nepal shares some of these defects seen in the US but we lack significant historical wisdom
Published On: November 8, 2016 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Never before have we been so vocal and articulate. We have dismantled the old regime via the sheer power of talking defiantly
Published On: September 27, 2016 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
Editors can inspire, encourage and guide their reporters to do the legwork and write stories behind the events
Published On: September 13, 2016 12:35 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari
The fundamental role of the press in our society depends on historical, economic, social and political bases of our culture