Kantipur Publications

Kantipur Daily and The Kathmandu Post are Nepal’s most widely read publications, together reaching policymakers, diplomats, business leaders, civil society, and Nepali readers at home and abroad. We are building a cross-publication team dedicated to in-depth journalism: features that reveal, investigations that hold power to account, and enterprise reporting that helps readers understand the forces shaping their lives.

Responsibilities

• Report and write long-form features, investigative stories, and enterprise pieces for both Kantipur Daily and The Kathmandu Post, working across Nepali and English platforms
• Develop and pitch original story ideas rooted in Nepal’s political, economic, and social realities, with an emphasis on accountability and public interest
• Build and maintain a network of sources — across government, institutions, civil society, and communities — that generates story leads unavailable to reporters relying on press releases and official channels
• Work closely with the Managing Editor and section editors to develop stories beyond the daily news cycle, from early-stage idea through reporting, drafting, and revision
• Conduct document-based and data-driven reporting, use RTI filings, public records, and financial disclosures as core reporting tools
• Coordinate with photographers, videographers, and data journalists to develop multimedia-ready stories suited to digital and print platforms
• Fact-check your own work rigorously and participate in the team’s editorial review process
• Contribute to simultaneous Nepali and English publication of major investigations when relevant

Requirements

• At least 5-7 years of reporting experience, including work on investigative stories
• Demonstrated ability to develop original stories — not just respond to news — and to see them through from idea to publication
• Deep familiarity with Nepal’s political, institutional, and social landscape; well-sourced in at least one major beat (politics, economy, governance, environment and climate, social affairs, or others)
• Able to work in Nepali and English, and skilled in writing clean copy in one of the two languages
• Comfortable working on long-horizon projects alongside daily deadlines, and disciplined about managing your own time across multiple stories in varying stages
• Grounded in journalistic ethics: accuracy, fairness, source protection
• Genuinely motivated by journalism that matters to people’s lives, to democratic accountability, to the public record

Application deadline: April 15, 2026.