When does news about journalists' protests in Nepal become no news? After they help establish democracy via historic street protests (unparalled perhaps anywhere in the world), and then begin protesting for thier own hand-to-mouth survival. Even the brightest lamp cannot do away with the dark conjoined shade around its base, one may argue. Is Nepali press just like that? Will working journalists get thier fair share? Why should or why not? Apparently, mainstream journalists cannot respond to these questions because they don't own the big media. They are citizen journalists like Umesh Shrestha who are pursuing such Qs.• A Nepali Journalist Abroad, Oh My News
• Newspaper editor, 3 journalists threatened by local political leaders, IFEX
• Journalist slush funds and citizen-scribes, Nepali Times
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