Annapurna Post | |
Type: | Newspaper Online news portal |
Format: | Broadsheet |
Owners: | Annapurna Media Network (AMN) |
Publisher: | Captain Rameshwar Thapa |
Chiefeditor: | Akhanda Bhandari |
Newseditor: | Shambhu Kattel |
Language: | Nepali language |
Headquarters: | Corporate Tower, Tinkune, Kathmandu |
Publishing Country: | Nepal |
Annapurna Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Nepal.[1] [2] [3] It started printing in 2002 and launched its online news portal in 2013 by Annapurna Media Network, which also owns The Annapurna Express, AP1 TV and Radio Annapurna Nepal.[4] [5] By 4 April 2014, its online news portal was listed among 10 most visited news portal in Nepal.[6] It also launched its own mobile news app by 2018.[7]
In the annual newspaper classification report 2073/2074 BS by Press Council Nepal, this newspaper was categorized in the A category, the second highest possible rank below A+.[8]
Annapurna Post is among the second most-widely read Nepali language newspapers, whose shares of readership were around 4 - 7% of Nepalis who read a newspaper according to an audience survey in 2016, considerably behind the leader Kantipur which was read by over half of those who read newspapers.[9] [10]
It is reported that 7% of its posts were based on unrevealed source of information which apparently falls under misleading news media.[11]