By Indira Aryal

• By Indira Aryal
• Sat, 7 May 2022

Efforts For Gender-Friendly Newsrooms

Nepal’s news mediascape has continued to grow over the years. The expansion of media outlets since the 1990s has reached over 8,000. Among them, over 800 are radio stations, 164 television stations, 3,120 online news media platforms, and over 7,000 are print media houses in Nepal. Altogether 13, 077 journalists have registered themselves at the Federation of Nepalese Journalists as members, according to the Centre for Media Research. Despite this, male journalists still dominate the voice in the news media.