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Arun Karki’s Biography

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Having decade-long experience in multimedia journalism at Nepal TV News, Arun Karki is spearheading Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN), a non-profit organization established to work on data journalism by facilitating investigative journalists of Nepal. Holding master’s degree in Information/Communication Technology along with a strong track record of a proven self-starter and creative troubleshooter, he is appreciated for his well-built journalistic sense of multimedia curation, writing, c…

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Nepal quake survivors rebuild lives with organic farming | BRACED

Nepal quake survivors rebuild lives with organic farming | BRACED

An organic farming programme allows Nepalese farmers to boost their income and rebuild their homes

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Nepal floods 2016 | BRACED

Nepal floods 2016 | BRACED

BRACED is helping people become more resilient to climate extremes in South and Southeast Asia and in the Afr…

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Inside Nepal's first collaborative deep data dive

Inside Nepal's first collaborative deep data dive

Seven journalists from seven different news outlets collaborated on a project to show that thousands of resid…

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Multimedia tools help journalists tell meaningful stories of climate change

Multimedia tools help journalists tell meaningful stories of climate change

Wedged between high mountains to the north and subtropical plains to the south, Nepal is one of the most vuln…

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Arun Karki: Reporting Without a Home

Arun Karki: Reporting Without a Home

After a devastating earthquake upended Nepal in April, video journalist Arun Karki and his family were left h…

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After the Quake: Waiting for Relief - CIJ Nepal

After the Quake: Waiting for Relief - CIJ Nepal

Housing grant process in disarray; families in tents wait almost two years without funds A deep data dive rev…

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Data journalism in disaster zones

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By Steve Doig, Joshua Mutisya, Arun Karki, John Maines Verified
305, 8200, 922. At first sight, these numbers appear meaningless. But if we convert them to kilometres per hour, depth in metres, and barometric pressure, they represent the start of three major natural disasters. The speed of winds when Typhoon Haiyan hit the Filipino province of Eastern Samar. The depth of Nepal’s April 2015 Earthquake. And the intensity of Hurricane Andrew, when it made landfall in Florida 23 years prior.
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6 tips for protecting your mental health when reporting on trauma

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By Arun Karki
| International Journalists Network
This post is the second piece in a two-part series about how journalists can protect both their physical safety and mental health, as well as the health and safety of their subjects, when covering dangerous or traumatic events. You can read part one, which addresses physical safety, here. Twelve years ago, I didn’t know how impacted I was by Nepal’s civil war and Maoist insurgency. For a year, I had to pore over raw footage of the aftermath of the war in post-production.
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These Women Are Literally Rebuilding Nepal After Last Year's Earthquake

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By Arun Karki
| Global Citizen Verified
Destroyed buildings are pictured in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. RAIGAUN, Nepal, Sept. 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on the roof of the house she had started building a month earlier. If it didn't rain, she planned to finish the roofing in a couple of days. Within a week, she said, she should be done with the two-room concrete house.
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