Changing faces of Nepal’s news sites

In last few months – three top news sites of Nepal namely eKantipur.com [the new name for KantipurOnline.com], TheHimalayanTimes.com [the online venture of APCA House which publishes The Himalayan Times English daily] and the old gold NepalNews.com changed their designs [and updating frequency].

Here are the two screenshots of these sites for comparison:

eKantipur in January, 2009

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Changed eKantipur

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Old face of NepalNews

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And, NepalNews’ new face

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Old TheHimalayanTimes

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And, the complete makeover

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Why the change?
Those changes on the online news site were seen on the short span of time. Why? I believe the big reason is the arrival of MyRepublica.com [I am not telling that because I am working there]. MyRepublica.com started a few months before the publication of print edition and with all the effort of the journalists, it soon climbed to the top position forcing others to rethink about their running news site.

Anyway, it’s a good news for the online media lovers and those who prefer reading online news.

0 responses to “Changing faces of Nepal’s news sites”

  1. Niranjan Avatar

    This is something I’ve noticed too, and I think you’re right – myrepublica.com have forced them to rethink about their online presence…

  2. Ishor Kumar K.C Avatar
    Ishor Kumar K.C

    Its good to have fair competiton because We, the readers are always benefitted with you peoples’ cold war. Tough competition / more upgradation, we require that.

  3. Deep Raj Uprety Avatar
    Deep Raj Uprety

    Lets hope this fair competition does not turn to unhealthy and unfair competition

  4. Ujjwal Acharya Avatar

    And, I hadn’t noticed it until today but NepalNews has the nicely put up commenting system below each news.

    It could be counted as good or bad but they are not moderating the comments and it appears as soon as you submit it. I even see some very nasty comments there.

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