Center for Media Research

1. Center for Media Research - Nepal

2. Disclaimer

 This is only preview of the survey conducted by
Center for Media Research – Nepal
 The final report will be available by late August
 The data/analysis presented here is only provisional
for now and may change when the final report is
released.
 If you are interested in receiving final report, free of
cost, send in an email to cmrnepal@butmedia.org

3. The Basics
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 Online survey in which 259 journalists participated
 192 forms validated, 67 were not considered
 86.6 % male / 13.5 % female
 49 % Newspapers / 22.4 % Television / 16.1 % Radio
/ 7.3 % online and 4.7 % News Agency
 Mean of journalistic career: 9.2 years / Age: 30
 29 Districts of Nepal covered with 73.4 % from
Kathmandu / 2.6 Banke / 2.1 Chitwan

4. Email Accounts
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 Gmail: 92.7 per cent
 Yahoo: 44.3 per cent
 Hotmail: 30.2 per cent
 Office domain: 6.3 per cent
 ISP email: 2.6 per cent

5. Blogs
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 45.3 per cent of journalists have created a blog
 6.8 per cent of journalists write on other’s blog
 Why they write on or maintain blogs?
 To express feelings: 26 %
 To write opinions on current affairs: 25 %
 To archive their published articles: 22.9 %
 To share literary writing: 8.3 %
 To share my photos/videos: 9.4%
 To share interesting links: 6.8 %
 Just for fun: 3.6 % / Opened to test: 2.6 %

6. Social Networking
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 96.9 % of Nepali journalists use Facebook
 Hi5: 14.1 %
 LinkedIn: 8.3 %
 Orkut: 5.7 %
 MySpace: 4.7 %
 Other: 4.2 %

7. Micro / Photo / Video
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 39.6 per cent of Nepali journalists use Twitter
 2.1 per cent use Tumblr / 1 per cent use other
 15.6 per cent use Google Web Album to share photos
 12.5 per cent use Flickr to share photos
 38 per cent use YouTube
 8.3 per cent use other photo/video sharing sites

8. 
It’s just a teaser!
Thank you!
CMRNepal@butmedia.org