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Accountability, Nation and Society: The Role of Media in Remaking Nepal
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 23 pp.
"This briefing explores some of the key challenges facing the Nepali media. It outlines growing concerns over politicisation and co-option, particularly of the mainstream Kathmandu-based media, as well as other economic and technological challenges facing the media. The briefing further outlines how
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"The primary objective of the 2015 NIMP Mission was to provide technical inputs to activities underway under UNESCO’s Safety of Journalists project, particularly in terms of setting up an independent national mechanism on safety at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Another key objective
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UNICEF Nepal C4D Response: Earthquake 2015
Kathmandu: UNICEF Nepal (2016), 16 pp.
"In July 2015, Internews launched Open Mic Nepal, a project designed to track and debunk rumors in the earthquake-afected communities. Based on previous pilots of this approach in Gaza and Liberia, the project set out to assess and address information needs by using minimally structured qualitative
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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Nepal: An Assessment Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators
Paris: UNESCO (2016), 115 pp.
"This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report documents the national state of journalists' safety and the issue of impunity by providing an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Nepal. It also examines the context of safety and the responsibility
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Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions: Worldwide Perspectives
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom; UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression, Media Development and Global Policy (2016), 202 pp.
"The aim of the present book is to provide both empirical and theoretical input to the discussions of the role of journalism and media in conflict and post-conflict situations and in the often rather muddy waters between them. Together, the contributions to this book from different parts of the worl
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"As we stand now, Pakistan’s media continues its stratospheric expansion, but in the midst of curbs and controls and ongoing safety issues. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are treading a precarious path to finding credible and independent spaces for the media against economic challenge and political c
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Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal: Evaluation Report UDF-NEP-10-387
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2015), 30 pp.
"The Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal project sought to strengthen the institutional capacity of community radios to promote social accountability and represent the interests of their constituencies. Its intended outcomes were to: 1) improve internal governance, o
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
Deep Insights
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that
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South Asian Newspaper Directory 2015-2017
Chennai: WAN-IFRA South Asia (2015), 136 pp.
"A look at the past three editions of the South Asian Newspaper Directory show significant trends. Newspaper publishers continue to increase the number of editions and printing centres; many publishers have opted for double-width presses, a new trend particularly among the local language / regional
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Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific
Paris; Bangkok: UNESCO; UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (2015), ix, 90 pp.
"On average across Asia and the Pacific, women make up 28.6 percent of the media workforce. The proportions are lower in decision-making roles in media organizations where women make up 17.9 percent of executive roles, 19.5 percent of senior editorial and 22.6 percent of mid-level editorial position
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The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 113 pp.
"The year under review in this report (May 2014 to April 2015) shows that journalists and media workers remain victims and, too often, targets in the deadly power struggles on which that they report. Within this time period, 14 journalists lost their lives, mostly in targeted attacks. Pakistan was t
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Disaster Response: Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery. Overview
London: GSMA (2015), 24 pp.
Community Radio and Sustainability: A Participatory Research Initiative
Haryana; New Delhi: Ideosync; Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA); UNESCO (2015), 46 pp.
"Community Radio is still nascent in Bangladesh while in India it has completed a decade and in Nepal it has existed in its myriad forms without a policy for much longer [...] The existence or non-existence of a guiding national CR policy plays an important role in determining the kind of Community
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Asian Comics
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.
"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp
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Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 64 pp.
"This synthesis of evidence suggests that BBC Media Action interventions have an important role to play in assisting people affected by crisis, and is consistent with other literature that highlights the role of media in providing accurate and reliable information in crisis. It highlights that, as w
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