Center for Media Research – Nepal announces the second batch of research fellows under the CMR-Nepal Research Support Program 2013-14.

The CMR Research Fellows for 2013-14 are: Umesh Pokhrel, Kanchan Adhikari and Ganesh Paudel (fellows) and Bhuwan KC (researcher fellow).

“We are excited to welcome new batch of fellows who I hope would find the fellowship highly supportive to complete the research projects they’ve undertaken,” Tilak Pathak, CMR-Nepal chair said on the occasion of announcement.

During the fellowship Umesh Pokhrel will look into the relationship between journalists and security agencies to analyze the information flow and consequences.

Similarly, Kanchan Adhikari will compare the editorials of national dailies while Ganesh Paudel will conduct research on journalists’ use of Wikipedia as research resource.

Bhuwan KC, CMR-Nepal vice-president, will analyze the political inclination and affiliation of journalists of daily newspaper and their impacts on the content.

Fellowship co-ordinator Ujjwal Prajapati welcomed all the fellows.