Capacity Building of Journalists

Since the restoration of democracy in the 1990s and the end of the Maoist insurgency in 2006, Nepali media has grown immensely in size fuelled by an increase in the number of outlets. This, in turn has led to an increase in the number of journalists. However, little attention has been paid to their capacity development. Absence of professional training, collaboration and experience sharing initiatives has kept press and the people involved from developing professionally. We intend to change this by providing training and learning opportunities to journalists in all seven provinces of the country. We will collaborate with academic and non-academic institutions to develop modules and reference materials and will endeavour to guide media professionals based on them.