We are in a business of thinking
<p>Veteran Nepalese journalist Deepak Adhikari takes us through his life journey from proofreading to investigative journalism and fact checking. Highlighting the nexus between politics and business, Adhikari takes us through the challenges and satisfactions in this line of work, as well as the challenges while giving advice to future investigators.</p> <p><em>“It’s really hard to explain what we do to lay people and I think this is a crisis facing journalism because we don’t explain our work and it kind of gives off an aura of mystery. I have an eight year old daughter. Sometimes I take her to my presentations and my office to see what I’m doing, and she’s fairly updated about what I do. But the larger society, even my relatives either, they don’t want to hear about the process because it’s not pleasant—You have to go to a dark room and then you spend hours collecting documents. You have to wait for hours for a source to appear.”</em></p>
Authors: Mariam Aboughazi
Contributors: Deepak Adhikari
Musician: Wael Eskandar, Kai Engel
Editors: Laura Ranca, Lieke Ploeger, Wael Eskandar, Marek Tuszynski, Christy Lange
Part of: Exposing the Invisible