पल्पसाको पछी दौडदै !

नेपालको ७५ जिल्ला घुम्ने यि पदयात्रीको तस्बिर सँयोगले खिच्ने मौका मिल्यो । त्यो पनि नोकिया ६३०० मोबाइलबाट काठमाण्डौमा । शायद तपाईंको अनुमान मिल्न सक्छ होला , गेस गर्नुस त , कुनै क्याफे बसेर अन-लाइनमा ! उनको आगामी पुस्तकले मदन पुरस्कार पाउछ कि पाउदैन ?

सुचनामाथि साङ्लो

रियालिटी बाइटस्
रसुवा, नेपाल
देशको सर्वाधिक बिक्री हुने, साथै जनजनको ढुकढुकी पहिल्याउन सफल राष्ट्रिय दैनिक कान्तिपुरको शुक्रबारको प्रकाशन अवरुद्ध भएको खबर पाउँदा गला अवरुद्ध भयो । दुर्गम जिल्ला रसुवामा पहिराको नेटो काट्दै आउने बसमा पनि बेलुकीपख कान्तिपुर आएन । त्यो दिनको बिहानी त्यत्तिकै सूचनाविहीन साँझमा अस्ताएजस्तो भयो ।
१५ वर्षदेखि नियमित प्रकाशन भइरहेको कान्तिपुरको इतिहासमा माओवादी सम्बद्ध ट्रेड युनियन
एकाएक कसरी आयो ? प्रकाशन बन्द हुँदा लाखौंलाख जनताको सूचनाले भरिपूर्ण बिहानी खोसिएको महसुस भइरहेछ । के आफ्नो हक र अधिकारको नाममा लाखांै निर्दोष जनताको सामान्य सूचना पाउन संविधानले प्रत्याभूत गरेको मर्ममाथि बज्र प्रहार गर्न पाइन्छ ? कस्तो खालको समाज र राष्ट्रको हामी परिकल्पना गरिरहेका छौं ?
निष्पक्षता र सत्यतासँगै सूचना जनताको अधिकार भनिरहेको प्रकाशन गृहमाथि धावा बोल्दा किन माओवादी नेतृत्वभित्र रहेका वुद्धिजीवीहरू चुपचाप छन् ? एउटा पत्रिका एक दिन बन्द हुँदा त्यसले देश विकासको गतिलाई कति वर्ष पछि धकेल्छ भन्ने अनुसन्धानले बताउला ? सूचनामाथि साङ्लो लाउने प्रयत्न फेरि कसैले गरे जनताले तिनलाई पक्कै पनि सजाय दिनेछन् ।

तसबीर ब्लोग.कॉम.np

पापाराजी होइनन् यि ।

कान्तिपुरका यि फोटोग्राफरको मेहेनेत देख्दाखेरी कान्तिपुरको बिश्वसनियतामा कुनै कमि देखिदैन् । एक् प्रतियोगितको फोटो खिच्नको लागि बसको छतमा चढेका यि पत्रकार कुनै दिन फोटोग्राफरको जमातमा अग्रस्थानमा पुग्ने कुरामा मलाइ भने दुईमत छैन् । अनि उनको नाम , त्यो चाहि अफ द रेकर्ड है। किनभने डायनाको फोटो खिच्न दौडने पापराजी भन्दा यिनमा केहि कमि देखिदैन नि ।

Hitler in Headline .............

After firing a reporter from the first Nepali tabloid newspaper Naya Patrika Daily, I have found one tabloid paper where it was written as HITLER DEAD. At that time, the placing of photograph was taken by huge letters. I think this was due to lack of high resolution photographs.

The reporter Krishna Dhungana was ill treated by the editor and management team of the Naya Patrika Daily due to his presence in weekly writing in the blog mysanar.com.

"कु" मा परे ब्लगर क्रिष्ण !!

नेपाली ब्लग इतिहासमा एक जना ब्लगर क्रिष्ण ढुँगाना बिबादास्पद् रुपमा भर्खरै १०० दिन मनाउन सफल् पहिलो नेपाली टेब्लोइड पत्रिका नया पत्रिका दैनिकबाट निकालिएका छन। मेरो सँसार ब्लगमा पत्रिकाको गोप्यताबारे लेखिएको भनि उनलाई पत्रिकाबाट हटाइएको कुरा मेरो सँसार ब्लगमा उल्लेख छ । बेलायतमा माओबादी नेता क्रिष्ण बहादुर महरासँग गएर फर्केपछि कान्तिपुर छोडेका क्रिष्ण ज्वाला देवकोटाको सम्पादनमा प्रकाशन भैरहेको उक्त पत्रिकाले बिबादास्पद् बिषयहरुलाई कभर स्टोरी बनाउदै आएको छ ।

नेपाली ब्लगरले सामना गर्नुपरेको यो पहिलो घटनाको लागी रियालीटी बाईटस् घोर आपत्ति प्रकट गर्दछ ।

Krishna Dhungana recently said to the Ohmy News internatioal interviews about how he sacked from Naya Patrika Daily,

What did you blog that they decided to sack you?

Yes, I heard news about bloggers being sacked in Western countries but I have never ever thought that I might be victim too. Unlike in the West, I did not blog about official secrets. I usually blog about lifestyle. My last blog titled "Constituent Assembly and White Wine" was about the teenage girl and their circle, ignorant about country's burning issue- the constituent assembly.Still, they decided to fire me because they blamed me that I was focused in blog and not in writing news. My blogs were popular and my writing style, completely different from news writing style was also popular.I heard from my colleague that my editor blamed "He was very good reporter when he joined here. Later, he focused on blog than news. So, these days, he is not been able to contribute front page articles." (...... more)

Few weeks ago, Federation of Nepalese Journalists ( FNJ) along with the editor of Naya Patrika condemned about misbehaved reporter KP Dhungana and showed there resentment on the news disseminated on 2nd July.

3 July, 2007Kathmandu, NepalKrishna Dhungana, correspondent of 'Naya Patrika' daily was ill-treated by the accused Surendra Man Pradhan on Governor Corruption case and the staffers of Rastra Bank on 2 July at special court, Lalitpur district.

The same editor afterall sacked the reporter few weeks later.

प्रेस अधिकार सुनिश्चित भएन

कान्तिपुर संवाददाता काठमाडौं, वैशाख १९ - श्रमजीवी पत्रकार ऐन र सूचनाको हकसम्बन्धी विधेयकलाई अझै संसद्ले अन्तिम रूप दिन नसकेको नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघका सभापति विष्णु निष्ठुरीले बताएका छन् ।

विश्व प्रेस स्वतन्त्रता दिवसमा क्रियाशील पत्रकार महिला -डब्लूडब्लूजे) ले बुधबार आयोेजना गरेको 'पत्रकार महिलाको स्थिति' विषयक कार्यक्रममा उनले मानव अधिकार र प्रेस स्वतन्त्रताको ग्यारेन्टी गर्न ती विधेयक पारित गर्न सरकारस“ग माग गरे ।

यसैगरी महासंघले प्रेस स्वतन्त्रता दिवसमा बिहीबार मुलुकभरि प्रभातफेरीलगायतका कार्यक्रम आयोजना गरेको छ ।

WHO IS SHE?

I read too much. • I listen to NPR, and the only TV I see on a regular basis is CNN headline news. • I used to fight with my dad to be the first to read all the sections of the local newspaper — except sports. • When I was little I wanted to be an artist. • I'm one of seven kids. • I'm a reporter at a newspaper. • I don't just think the Internet is the future, I think it's now.

• I began teaching myself HTML at age 10. • As a young girl I would leave our table at restaurants and walk up to strangers to say hello. • I picked journalism as a major expecting to fail. • My dream jobs are producing content for the NYTimes.com and writing for WIRED magazine. • I love what I do.
Go Ahead.....

For much of my young life I was the anti-journalist. I struggled with spelling and punctuation. My knowledge of grammar was limited to tidbits of “Conjunction Junction” and “Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here,” basically what I could remember of School House Rock from sixth grade. I also couldn’t have called to order a pizza without an anxiety attack, let alone call a stranger and ask questions he or she would prefer not to answer.
The truth is, I’ve come a long way in a short time.

Journalism as a career didn’t cross my mind until the 11th grade, when my government teacher, after reading my essay about the state of the American education system, told me he thought I’d “make one hell of a journalist.” I shrugged it off at the time. But then, as I began to seriously consider my college and career options, it came back to me.

As a student my strengths had always been science and math. I was extremely interested in technology, especially the Web, but the idea of spending all day tethered to a computer held little appeal for me. I wanted to help people in a more direct way, and journalism was about the people.

At first I told no one. I accepted the science awards, aced AP calculus and quietly sent off my college applications with journalism circled as my major. My parents had always told me they’d support me in anything.

But when I told them I wanted to be a reporter, my father stormed off and told me to talk to my uncle, a journalism graduate currently employed as a waiter. My mother gave a wan smile and basically said she wanted me to be happy. A writer hadn’t been the plan for their smartest kid, the one who should have gone on to medical or law school.

Although I’m positive I would have made an amazing scientist or computer programmer, I don’t regret the decision I made to choose journalism. At the time, I fully expected to fail in the program, to change my major a few times and to succumb to the inevitable and go into science. But I didn’t. Instead, I found something I was intensely passionate about. I also learned that I could have the best of both worlds. I could cover topics such as technology or incorporate my Web background into the campus magazines as the Webmaster.

My inquisitive nature, which made me so good at science, and my unwillingness to give up on a problem, which helped me shine in math, have both worked in my favor as a journalist. I still love a good problem, and I still see things every day and wonder why. But now, I have the tools and courage to find out why and to help others solve their problems, too.

About MerandaWrites.com

I talk fast. And that makes it difficult when you introduce yourself and people misunderstand you. I say, “Meranda.” They hear Brenda, Amanda, Sandra, Briana, or any other concotion of a female name that is multiple syllables and ends in a. I always correct them, “No, Meranda. As in the Miranda Rights.”

That’s where the title for this Web site came from. Meranda may be my name, but writing and reporting is what I live for. I thought it was a clever pun, and after conferring with a few friends who reassured me it wasn’t too over the top, I registered the domain and got to work. This site will house my resume and work, journalistic mostly, and a blog where I’ll write about whatever strikes me on that given day.

Story of a Photographer !!!

© Toledo Blade/The Plain Dealer

The March 31, 2007 front pages of The Toledo Blade and The Cleveland Plain Dealer featured similar photos of the Bluffton University baseball team. In the Blade's photo, the legs behind the number 19 banner were erased.

Blade photographer Allan Detrich says he sent the altered file to his editors by mistake. The legs are visible in The Plain Dealer's photo, which was not altered.

(The colors of the two photos don't match because the newspapers use different methods of publishing their front pages online.)

Photographer Allen Detrich of The Blade says :

I have lived the life of Journalism for the last 25 years. I have seen alot of changes, some good and some bad.

I have shot millions of photos over my career and loved most every minute of it. I have covered events that most people would give their right arm to be at; let alone on the sidelines or sitting right down front.

I have photographed every President since Reagan, and shook hands with many. I have traveled to Japan, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Panama for stories. I have lived a full journalistic life. ( ...more)

“the world’s greatest superpower: Mother Nature”

Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly has won 2005's World Press Photo for the photograph shown here, taken in an emergency feeding centre in Niger.

"This picture has haunted me ever since I first saw it two weeks ago. It has stayed in my head, even after seeing all the thousands of others during the competition. This image has everything — beauty, horror and despair. It is simple, elegant and moving."
James Colton, chairman of the jury

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यो फोटो चर्चित् ब्लगर् अनामिकाको पेजमा भेटे । र त्यो सदाबहार् कपाल खौरेको फोटोग्राफर सागर श्रेष्ठ नै हुनुपर्छ । पुल्चोक क्याम्पस मा ४-५ बर्ष अगि स्पेस टाइम दैनिकको पहिलो पेजको लागि रोबोटको फोटो खिच्न कम्मर् भाच्ने उ अहिले सायद् नेपाल् समाचारपत्र दैनिकमा छ ।

त्यो मान्छेको जस्तो उचाई एउटा राम्रो फोटोग्राफरको लागि उपयुक्त हुन्छ पनि, तेसमा पनि बालुवाटारको पर्खालबाट चिहाएर बार्ताको ब्रेकिङ् फोटो आज भोलि खिच्न उसलाई सजिलो पनि भैइरहेको होला।