Journalists & social media

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.

If you are interested in receiving final report, free of cost, send in an email to cmrnepal@butmedia.org

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

It’s just a teaser!

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