1/7/2024 0 Comments Quake mediaThis prompted a surge in on-line viewing of newspapers including (only online), (online version of Kantipur Daily newspaper), (online version of Nagarik Daily newspaper), (online version of Annapurna Post daily newspaper) and (a popular digital paper).ĭespite the widespread damage it was still possible to maintain access to the internet much of the time. Most newspapers continued their publication despite damage to their buildings, but distribution was halted so their reporting was not getting out to many people. However, few community radio stations were advised to develop any necessary measures to withstand an earthquake. Nepal is a pioneer in community radio in South Asia. Radio Nepal continued transmission despite the disruptions but most of the community and privately-owned radio stations were hard hit and are still struggling to resume services. Surendra Pandey/Kantipur Television, Author provided News reports from Kantipur Television from a makeshift newsroom out in the open. The station has this week setup transmission from a cafeteria until the safety of the station building can been established. It only continued transmission by setting up a temporary news desk set in the open in Kathmandu. While the government owned Nepal Television ( NTV) continued transmission, the privately owned Kantipur TV experienced disruption because of the earthquake. The immediate aftermath of disaster resulted in confusion within the leading media outlets with a lack of coordination by the government of the rescue efforts. There are 81 licences issued to run TV stations in Nepal but only about a dozen of TV channels operate regularly. Only about a dozen such publications have a wide circulation, such as the government owned Gorkhapatra Daily and the privately run Kantipur Daily and Nagarik Daily. Nepal also has 568 registered daily newspapers among a total of 6,500 newspapers and magazines. Radio Nepal is the government controlled national transmission run from Kathmandu and regional transmission centres. There are approximately 350 radio stations, and most are independent and community owned. The principal source of news for most people in Nepal is community radio. Nepal has a population of about 29-million, yet there are approximately 10,000 people involved in different media organisations throughout the country. This is surprising not only given that Nepal is known to be prone to earthquakes, but also given the scale of the media in the country. There was limited reporting that encouraged the development of any disaster resilient infrastructure in Nepal. We identified that the principal focus of media attention was on the response phase of disasters and on the human interest aspect. Our research, published last year, collected 477 news stories on natural disasters in Nepal over a 12 month period from four sections of Nepalese media: print, on-line, radio and television. But there has not previously been research into the media’s treatment of disasters in Nepal, or the frameworks or models that might guide the media’s approach. The role of the media in any disasters is significant. On this occasion, the lack of reporting by Nepalese media early on was added to by the damage the earthquake had caused to media infrastructure itself.
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