journalists & social media
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Journalists & Social Media
Center for Media Research - Nepal
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.
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Disclaimer
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
The Basics
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
Email Accounts
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 %
Blogs
96.9 % of Nepali journalists use Facebook Hi5: 14.1 % LinkedIn: 8.3 % Orkut: 5.7 % MySpace: 4.7 % Other: 4.2 %
Social Networking
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
Micro / Photo / Video