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Deepak Adhikari

Hi, I'm Deepak Adhikari, a Kathmandu-based Nepali journalist.


Currently a Nepal correspondent for AFP. Oversaw a weekend supplement of Kantipur Daily, Nepal's largest selling newspaper (from March 2009 to November 14 2010). Freelance reporting to Time.com, Guardian Weekly, a weekly newspaper published by Guardian Media, UK, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, second largest daily in Pennsylvania, US. Contributed for OhMyNews International, a citizen journalism Web site from South Korea (2006-7). Stringed for World Entertainment News Network, a UK headquartered news agency. Articles have appeared at online journals such as Open Democracy, Nepal Monitor. Worked from April1, 2008 to August 30, 2008 at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a daily published from Pittsburgh and read throughout Western Pennsylvania, US. In 2002, started to contribute to Nepal Weekly, Nepal's largest selling news magazine and eventually joined its editorial team in April 2004. Blogger since October 2004 (with Nepal's pioneer United We Blog!) and have been maintaining personal blog Deepak's Diary: www.deepakadk.blogspot.com Worked as a senior reporter in a weekly Kathmandu tabloid Drishti Weekly (1994-1998) covering parliamentary affairs, politics and social issues for four years. Interviewed more than forty politicians of Nepal's major political parties at a time of political uncertainty and democratic exercise.

Deepak Adhikari's Background

Deepak Adhikari's Experience

Assistant Senior Reporter at Kantipur Publications Private Limited

October 2008 - November 2010

Features writer and coordinator

Reporter at Nepal Weekly magazine, Kantipur Publications

April 2004 - October 2008

Wrote feature stories for Nepal Weekly, a newsmagazine published from Kathmandu.

Senior Reporter at Drishti Weekly Publications

August 1994 - March 1998

Covered parliamentary affairs and politics

Nepal Correspondent at Agence France Presse

November 2010

Working at the Kathmandu bureau of Agence France Presse. Writing news and features on Nepal, assisting the bureau chief on news gathering and research.

Deepak Adhikari's Education

Tribhuvan University

2003 – 2006

Postgraduate


Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu

1994 – 1997

Bachelor of Arts

Concentration: English and Journalism and Mass Communication


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