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Punita Rimal graduated in Mass Communications and Journalism from the Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1997. She also has a diploma (1992) in Development Communication and Gender from the Center for Women and Development, Kathmandu.She is the Asia-Pacific Nepal region correspondent for the US-based global Women News Network (WNN) covering women’s advocacy news. She has also produced programs for Nepal FM covering a wide range of transitional issues facing contemporary Nepal.  She has served in different media houses and has a long experience in communications. Her earlier stint in journalism includes those with Radio Bangladesh External Service (RBES) and Kantipur FM. At RBES, for three years since 1997, she worked as an announcer and translator. At Kantipur FM radio, she was a program producer and program director on the CIT-Digital Media. She has produced numerous programs for radio jockeys.

Another area of Ms. Rimal’s work is strategic communications. She has served as the Information Officer at the Nepal Press Institute where she coordinated the Journalism Proficiency Course in 1998. She has worked as consultant for UNICEF’s Child Program, which involved Bal Aawaj (Children’s Voice), a radio show on children’s health, education and their rights, etc. She has provided editorial and logistics support to bring out a number of specialty publications, such as trends in media, community participation and collaboration, for a number of institutions, including the Nepal Press Institute. She has also served as interpreter.

Ms Rimal has attended a number of national and international training and workshop programs on community media, publication of newspapers, newspaper technology, role of information in national development, and radio technology, among others.

She has been affiliated with a number of organizations, the most important of which are the Federation of Nepalese Journalists and Sancharika Samuha.

She speaks fluent English, Nepali, Bengali and Hindi.

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