Improved but unstable

While there has been an increase in news media outlets, there has also been a surge in fake news.

Nepal has experienced tumultuous press freedom in the last two decades due to its socio-political upheavals from a monarchial to a republican state. The country transformed from a very difficult country regarding press freedom to one of South Asia's leading free press countries in 2022. The year 2022 was not much different from previous ones because there was some degree of optimism while also substantial challenges to the free press with repeated violations such as arrests, obstructions, threats, harassment, attacks, job insecurity, gender violence and displacement. According to the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) 2022 record, there were 22 cases of harassment and threat, 11 job insecurity incidents, and seven obstructions to access information. The nature and volume of incidents in the past two years were almost identical.