Lumbini, Sept 13, A news festival will take place in Lumbini on November 17-19 coinciding with the Visit Lumbini Year 2076 and Visit Nepal Year 2020. A meeting of Lumbini Press Club, the festival organiser, held in Bangkok decided in this regard.
The three-day event will be attended by representatives and editors of various national dailies, radios, televisions, online news sites and international media based in Nepal, said the club’s chairperson Dipesh Pacchai. An 18-member team of the Club is in Bangkok in a bid to promote tourism of Nepal.
A 15-member main organising committee led by Pacchai and a five-member direction and advisor committee led by Kamal Rayamajhi have been formed for this festival.
The festival is believed to be helping create a discourse on the whole situation of mofessil journalism, structure of press within federalism, role of journalists on tourism promotion, news writing skills and relations between writing, literature and arts, and take mofessil journalism to a new height. –
