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 Front page ofThe Kathmandu Post on 2 February 2017 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Kantipur Publications |
| Editor-in-chief | Biswas Baral[1] |
| Founded | February 1993; 32 years ago (1993-02) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Kathmandu |
| Country | Nepal |
| Circulation | 95,000[2] |
| Website | kathmandupost |
The Kathmandu Post is a major dailynewspaper published inNepal. Founded in February 1993 byShyam Goenka,[3] it is one of the largest English-language newspapers in the country.[4][5] The newspaper is published byKantipur Publications, the publishers of Nepal's largest selling newspaper, the Nepali-languageKantipur.[6]Post is a member of theAsia News Network, an alliance of nineteen Asian newspapers.[7] TheKathmandu Post is Nepal's first privately owned English broadsheet daily, and is Nepal's largest selling English language newspaper, with a daily circulation of 95,000 copies.
The Post's first five pages are primarily dedicated to national news. Each day, the last page offers a variety of features, including explainers, interviews, auto reviews, and restaurant reviews and destinations. During the weekdays, the newspaper also features culture & arts pages, which cover national and international news on society, life and style, fashion and technology. On the weekends, the Post focuses on long-form journalism, satire and creative non-fiction articles.[8]
Since 2018, under the editorship ofAnup Kaphle,[9] the Post focused on longer investigative pieces,[10] analyses and explainers, making those the core of its daily reporting. Kaphle resigned in February 2020 and was replaced as editor by Sanjeev Satgainya.[11] Biswas Baral, former editor ofThe Annapurna Express, was appointed editor in September 2022 after Satgainya resigned.[12] Satgainya and Baral reversed many of the changes that Kaphle had made, turning the paper back to its previous focus on op-ed and political reporting.
In October 2007, the offices ofThe Kathmandu Post were attacked by the All Nepal Printing and Publication Workers' Union, a group connected to the former Maoist rebels of theUnified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The printing press was vandalized, stopping the paper from being published. Two hundred journalists and legal professionals marched in Kathmandu in protest at the attacks.[13][14]
On 18 February 2020, The Kathmandu Post republished an article byIvo Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, which was originally published in The Korea Herald, a member of theAsia News Network, with an accompanyingstock illustration fromShutterstock that showedMao Zedong wearing a mask. The Chinese Embassy in Nepal took serious exception to the article and the illustration, issuing a press statement that said the article had been published with "malicious intention" and had "deliberately smeared the efforts of the Chinese government and people fighting against the newcoronavirus pneumonia and even viciously attacked the political system of China".[15][16] The press statement was widely condemned by journalists and diplomats for breaching "diplomaticdecorum" and was seen as an attempt by the Chinese government to stifle press freedom in a neighboring country.[17][18][19]