PCN starts awareness drive on journalist code of conduct

Kathmandu : The Press Council Nepal (PCN) has started an awareness campaign on the journalist code of conduct.
The campaign has been initiated in Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, Sarlahi, Parsa, among other districts with the objective of making the journalists responsible and accountable to the journalist code of conduct while making journalism decent and dignified.
PCN’s officiating chief officer and information officer, Deepak Khanal, said as part of the campaign interaction would be held between the district based journalists and stakeholder bodies regarding the implementation of the code of conduct.
Similarly, press monitoring, seminar and study regarding journalists’ problems related to the code and the status of its implementation would be done. The campaign would be conducted throughout the country.
Of late, complaints related to the violation of the journalist code of conduct have been increasing at the PCN. As many as 53 complaints have been lodged with the PCN in the last three months.
The Press Council Nepal has issued the Journalist Code of Conduct, 2073 BS, with the consent of the Federation of Nepali Journalists.