This report is based upon the monitoring of main news contents from 21 daily newspapers from seven Provinces of Nepal from April to June 2018.
Freedom Forum here again presents the report of monitoring from April to June 2018 encasing representation of gender in news byline, news sources and their distribution as per the headlines.
Freedom Forum conducted the media mission from 10 to 13 July 2018 in the Province 1 focusing Jhapa, Ilam and Panchthar districts.
As media is the mirror of society, the contents brought by them is essentially a topic to study to know more about local contexts.With this in background, Freedom Forum has expanded the monitoring of media contents to find the representation of women in major provincial newspapers.
This report encloses presence of male and female as news authors and sources in the main news contents of major national dailies and online news portals.
This report enclosing monitoring period from October to December along with annual trends and further entails about under representation of women in bylines and as news sources on the main news contents of Nepali national dailies.
Freedom Forum hereby, presents fortieth issue of its newsletter which encases incidents of FoE violations, organizational activities, campaigns, review papers, reports, international news and events relating to FoE issues during the months of October to December 2017.
The report encloses freedom of press and expression updates from January to December 2017 which highlighted a total of 66 press freedom violations during this passing year 2017, a sharp rise compared to the previous year, 2016. Only 25 incidents were recorded in 2016.
The Media Mission III Report prepared with field visit in the southern plains of east of Nepal on the eve of December 7, 2017 elections: finds no physical threats to journalists. However, political parties' influence, division and groupism within journalists, lack of technical skills, non-implementation of minimum pay scale to journalists, border crime are severe hindrances to the professionalism in journalism.
The report contains evidence based quantitative data on gender divide in the main news contents of major nepali and english national dailies.