The topic of the interaction was “Nepali Sports Journalism” and all the guests spoke about its current situation. Editor of Gorkhapatra Daily Sitaram Agrahari shared his experiences as a sports journalist. He asked the journalists to stick to truth and work for the betterment of sports. “We have given a lot of space for sports and will continue it in the future,” Agrahari said.[break]
Addressing the participants of the program, Kedar Koiral, news chief of Avenues Television said that sports journalists are not linked with any political parties and they have been doing good till date. “Sports journalists do not work under pressure of anybody so they have been performing well till date.”
Hari Thapa, news editor of Kantipur daily said that sports the most essential news among all as it is related with national integrity. “The controversies in sports are not raised so these issues must be raised.”
Chief Editor of Nepal Samacharpatra Puskar Lal Shrestha said that journalists must highlight about the politics happening in the sports section. Similarly Ajay Bhadra Khanal, editor of The Himalayan Times, said that sports journalism is a main stream journalism and they should end the shortcomings of this sector.
News director of Nepal Television Rajendra Dev Acharya said that sports journalism has more mileage than any other journalism as it is connected with culture and emotion. President of the Federation of Nepalese Journalist Shiva Gaule assured to organize sports journalism training in order to develop the standard of sports journalists. President of NSJF Niranjan Rajbansi said that the suggestion received from the editors will help sports journalists to work well in the future.
Spokeperson of NSJF, Prakash Timalsina said sports journalists treated as second class journalists and that sports news do not get a good place in newspapers as well as television.
Editors present in the interaction program wished best luck to the national football team ahead of its clash with East Timor in the 2014 World Cup Asian Qualifiers on Saturday.
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