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AI in Nepal's news media

2 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 2 news organizations, 2024–2025.
South Asia2024–2025
Cases
2
Organizations
2
Active since
2024
Controversies
0

What AI is used for

AI Ethics & Editorial Policy1
Audience Experience & Personalisation1

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access0
2 – Adoption2
3 – Proficiency0
4 – Ways of Working0
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Own budget (2)

Notable cases

2024Onlinekhabar

AI-generated article summaries — bullet-point recaps of long articles displayed to help readers who do not want to read full stories; also used internally by journalists to quickly review reports and policy papers; among first Nepali outlets to integrate AI reader-facing tools with editorial oversight

Audience Experience & Personalisation2 – Adoption
AI text summarization (unspecified tools;" GenAI)Source →

2025Nepal News

AI editorial policy and AI-assisted content refinement — described as Nepal's first media house to actively implement AI integration policies; AI used for structural refinement of human-drafted content; AI-generated content must be reviewed and labeled; guidelines updated Aug. 22, 2025

AI Ethics & Editorial Policy2 – Adoption
Generative AI (structural refinement; specific tool not disclosed); editorial AI policy frSource →

Elsewhere in South Asia

Bangladesh 5India 45Pakistan 4Sri Lanka 1
Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.