7+ hour, 1+ min ago  (895+ words) Kathmandu District Court has sentenced Saroj Mishra, former editor of the Rajdhani Daily, to four months in prison and imposed a fine in a criminal defamation case, raising strong criticism from media organisations and press freedom advocates, who describe the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (277+ words) The idea of this column germinated when Kishor Dahal, op-ed editor at the Kantipur Daily observed during an informal conversation: "Once readers used to look for writers. Such are the times that scribes now must search for readers." The force…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (695+ words) Few journalists in Nepal evoke as strong a reaction as Kishor Shrestha, whose more than three decades in journalism have been marked by influence, controversy and scrutiny. Days after a bribery controversy involving him came out, a more than two-decade-old…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (909+ words) On Thursday evening, a video went viral on social media. In the 38-second clip, a group of people surrounds Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle, making it difficult for him to walk. At first glance, it is hard to identify the minister....

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (497+ words) The Kathmandu Post Kantipur Media Group appoints Anup Kaphle as Group Editorial Director Anup Kaphle, a Nepali journalist who spent two decades in international newsrooms, has been named Group Editorial Director at Kantipur Media Group, the highest editorial role at…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (719+ words) The Kathmandu Post An ex-journalist trying to restore trust in civil service The minister Pratibha Rawal is now responsible for managing the country's civil service and coordinating among Nepal's three tiers of government'federal, provincial, and local. Yet nearly a decade…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (259+ words) Kantipur Media Group has invited applications for the editor-in-chief of Kantipur Daily following the resignation of Umesh Chauhan, who had held the position for three years. Issuing a statement, the media group formally informed its readers and the wider media…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (485+ words) A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, two-thirds of them killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. It was the second straight year that press killings set…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (814+ words) The Indonesian press is struggling as journalists face escalating violence, intimidation and threats of widespread layoffs, amid what press groups call "rising authoritarianism" in the country that is undermining press freedom and sustainability. At least 89 cases of violence against journalists…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago  (257+ words) Our world is in the midst of a disruption triggered by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Companies selling AI tools have become the most valuable corporations in modern times, worth trillions of dollars'more than the GDPs of most countries....