TRANSITION OF NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM FROM PARTISANSHIP TO COMMERCIALISM IN POST-1990 NEPAL

Abstract

The study is focused on examination of the state of professionalism in Nepal's newspaper journalism before 1990. It evaluates the newspaper landscape during twenty-five years (1990-2015) of multiparty democracy. It examines the impact of 1990 political change on politics-laden weeklies known for their partisan leanings. The study also compare the state of political communication based on newspapers prior to and after 1990. It examines the state of the commercialism in the Nepali newspapers in post-1990 Nepal. Since historical survey research design approach is implied in order to review constitutional and legal provisions related to newspaper journalism prior to and post-1990 Nepal, related books, journals, websites and other literatures were examined. To evaluate the policy of government regarding the print media, the evolutionary process of legal framework, regulations, and related documents for policy analysis have also been analyzed with an exploratory approach. Primary, secondary and tertiary as well as quantitative and qualitative data were collected through more than one techniques such as FGD, key informant interview, case-study, content analysis and survey in order to find the answers to the research questions. Based mainly on exploratory approach, the research, thus applies triangulation method.