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Activities in the Past
As the present media market demands
qualified and trained journalist, we decided to overcome this shortages
by conducting various educational programmes. The 10 month Professional
Journalism Course is the first venture. The course has been running
since its inception (1995). Till the tenth batch trainees including
female have completed their course and started working successfully in
different national media including leading dailies, weeklies and
monthlies, National News Agency (RSS), Nepal Television,Channel Nepal,
Image Metro Channel, Kantipur Television. Besides, 33
working journalists were provided intensive training on feature writing
under special package programme of the institute.
In the field of editorial services, we had provided editorial service to
publish Nepal-German Newsletter (daily) on the occasion of Nepal-German
week held in Kathmandu. Likewise the institute also did all the
editorial work of Canada based Nepal-Canada Society’s magazine “Diyalo”
which was published on the occasion of Visit Nepal Year 1998. MP have
completed research project on Banking Radio Programme Listeners’ Survey
for Nepal Rastra Bank (Central Bank), impact study of Human Rights
Education Radio Programme for Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC),
Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Awareness Survey for Ms. Elizabeth Wesson
(Stanford University, California, USA) and research on earthquake
awareness conducted for National Society for Earthquake Technology under
the project of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Media Point Journalism Award (Rs.5555.00)
Media Point Investigative Fellowship Award (Rs.10000.00)
Likewise, the MP has instituted the annual “Media Point Journalism
Award” in 1997 to a best journalist for the best news reporting on
social issues. This award has already bagged by Six working
journalists.
1. Mr. Chirinjibi Maskey,Reporter, Nepal Samacharpatra Daily,
1997
2. Mr. Tanka Panta, Reporter, Nepal Samacharpatra Daily, 1998
3. Mr. Ram Prasad Dahal, Reporter, Kantipur Daily, 1999
4. Mr. Ram Kumar K.C., Reporter, National News Agency (RSS), 2000
5. Mr. Raghu Nath
Lamichane, Feature service, Sancharica Samuha, 2001.
6. Mr. Kamal Rimal, Himal Fortnightly, 2002
Media Point has offered investigative Reporting Fellowship to young
Journalist Ms. Tanchoma Limba to investigate uterius prolapse disease
among the women of Dolakha district.
MP’s Publication
Apart from training aspect, MP has just launched a monthly magazine
named “Sparsh” (touch). This magazine totally concentrates on social
issues, social harmony, and alleviation of social exploitation and
dedicated to all round development of Nepalese society. We are trying to
make it a model of ideal and low cost magazine as well. The trainees of
our journalism course are the main manpower involved in this magazine. |
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