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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
motivating the potential readers resulting low ratio of
newspaper readers.
3. The most of respondents (91.5 %) prefer the
traditional printed newspaper. Only the few
respondents use read e- newspaper. The e- newspaper
would inculcate the reading habits and eradicates the
geographical, financial, time barrier etc., provided the
skill and internet connectivity should be present.
4. It exhibits that the social and political news is
habitually preferred by the most of the respondents,
which is followed by Local community related news;
education; sports; economy and business and so on.
The majority of people of the community prefer to
read Nepali (62.7%) newspaper and English (36.6 %)
newspapers are in the second priority.
5. It is observed that the very less number of respondents
(12.7 %) visit to the public libraries to read the
newspaper and most of them subscribe (60.5 %) the
same or use in institution (16.9 %) where they are
associated with.
Conclusion
The newspapers are the most trusted source of information
for any society. This study is attempted to analyze the use
and reading habits of newspaper among the khas
community. It is also depicted in the findings that the
teenagers and old age people have lesser newspaper
reading habit. The several factors especially geographical
adversity, motivation, lack of internet etc., may have
affected the frequency of reading newspaper. Most of
respondents’ information need is associated with local
social, political and cultural entities. Some of the
respondents also expressed their interest in more focused
and exclusive community newspapers. The community
newspapers are focused to reflect the local social
problems, cultural actives, crimes and makes aware to the
community.
The study of Alice community in Eastern Cape Province
of South Africa exhibits that the Idikelethu the community
newspaper has been able to explore the issues and
empower the local citizens among the community (Metula
& Osunkunle, 2019). The Tibetan newspaper ‘The Mirror
– News From Various Regions’ first published in 1925 in
Kalimpong by Tibet mirror press, which usually reports
the cultural and social issues like impact of Chinese
aggression into the Tibet and Tibetans community etc.
Later in 1963 the newspaper ceased its publication due to
financial constrains (Hackett, 2008). The commercial
newspapers have some limitations in context of coverage
at micro level; it is more evident in case of national level
newspapers. The need for community specific newspaper
was felt which gave rise to the community newspaper like
Mahila Dakiya, Khabar Lahariya (2002) in India.
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