Introductory presentation on June 28, 2011 at the Int'l Summer School, University of Oslo.

2.  NEPAL is a magical country –
mountains, difficult terrains, and
smiling people.
 NEPAL is a developing country with new
republic democracy.
 There are lots of problems in NEPAL –
up to 16-hour-a-day electricity load-
shedding, and most sadly dirty political
games.
 Yet, we NEPALIS are hopeful for magic!

3.  Online editor of Republica national
daily
 My previous stints at various
newspapers including The Kathmandu
Post include translator, business
reporter, desk editor, and sports
bureau co-ordinator.
 A pioneer blogger – I ran two blogs that
advocated for democracy during the
King-imposed censorship in
newspapers.

4.  Post-graduation in journalism in 2005.
 Taught journalism to undergraduate
student.
 Expertise in online media and blogging.
 Research on media is my academic
interest.
 Married childhood sweetheart 8 years
ago, no children.
 I dream to become a fiction writer.

5. NEW, DEVELOPING YET VIBRANT

7.  11 TV stations in operation / 22 planned
 89 regular dailies / 381 weeklies newspapers
 200 radio stations / 150 planned
 12 mainstream news portals / 100s others
 68 feature films produced last year / more
than 700 films produced since the industry
began in 1965

9.  Nepal’s first news site : 1995
September
 In 1997-98, many other newspapers
started archiving their content in
websites
 In 2000, Nepal’s first news portal with
original content established
 In October 2004, first blog from Nepal
began
 In 2009-10, many mainstream news

10.  Early initiatives began as experiments
 Focus the Nepalis residing outside
Nepal
 Increased participation of citizens in
debate of national importance through
interactivity
 Has forced mainstream media to
change the content, style and coverage
 And, most importantly …..

11.  New media have played vital role during
crisis situation when mainstream are
unable to
 2005 February: blogs became mainstream
as the King sent military to media houses
to impose tight censorship
 Forum for global debate during crisis

12. THANK YOU