Annapurna Post
{{Short description|Nepali daily newspaper}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Annapurna Post
| logo = अन्नपूर्ण_पोस्ट्.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| caption = Logo of Annapurna Post
| type = Newspaper
Online news portal
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Annapurna Media Network (AMN)
| publisher = Captain Rameshwar Thapa
| chiefeditor = Akhanda Bhandari
| depeditor =
| newseditor = Shambhu Kattel
| foundation = {{Start date and age|2002}}
| language = Nepali language
| headquarters = Corporate Tower, Tinkune, Kathmandu
| publishing_country = Nepal
| website = {{URL|annapurnapost.com}}
}}
Annapurna Post ({{Langx|ne|अन्नपुर्ण पोस्ट}}) is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Nepal.{{cite web |title=Nepal PM's b'day celebrations marred by controversy over cutting of cake with country's map |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/nepal-pms-bday-celebrations-marred-by-controversy-over-cutting-of-cake-with-countrys-map-46669 |website=The Tribune |language=en}}{{cite web |title=China grabs Nepal's territory, erects fences blocking locals |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-grabs-nepals-territory-erects-fences-blocking-locals |website=The Sunday Guardian Live |date=2 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=House committees matter, but they don't matter. In Nepal, mini parliaments are failing in their job |url=https://kathmandupost.com/national/2020/10/03/house-committees-matter-but-they-don-t-matter-in-nepal-mini-parliaments-are-failing-in-their-job |website=The Kathmandu Post |language=English}} 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.{{Cite web |title=About AMN {{!}} AMNNepal |url=https://amnnepal.com/about-amn/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=History of Nepali newspapers: It began 400 years late, but downfall might just follow global trend – OnlineKhabar English News |url=https://english.onlinekhabar.com/history-of-nepali-newspapers.html |website=Online Khabar |date=21 July 2020}} By 4 April 2014, its online news portal was listed among 10 most visited news portal in Nepal.{{cite journal|last1=Acharya |first1=Bhanu Bhakta |date=2015 |title=Nepali media landscape in the age of digital media: A critical reflection |url=https://www.academia.edu/8516834 |via=academia.edu |journal=Samhita |volume= |issue= |pages=10 |doi= |access-date=}} It also launched its own mobile news app by 2018.{{cite web |title=Annapurna Post News App Available on Android and iOS |url=https://techlekh.com/annapurna-post-app/ |website=TechLekh |date=10 December 2018}}
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+.{{Cite web|url=https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/47292/|title=Press Council's report widely criticized|last=Republica|website=My Republica|language=en|access-date=2020-02-21}}
Readership
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.{{Cite SSRN | last = Acharya| first = Ujjwal| title = Nepal: Media Landscape | date = 2018-02-03 |ssrn=3778840}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Wk9EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 |title=Understanding World Media|date=2021|page=99 |publisher=K.K. Publications }}
Critiques
It is reported that 7% of its posts were based on unrevealed source of information which apparently falls under misleading news media.{{cite web |title=Research finds 3.70 per cent misleading news in Nepali media; THT most reliable |url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/research-finds-3-70-per-cent-misleading-news-in-nepali-media |website=The Himalayan Times}}
References
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External links
- {{Official|//www.annapurnapost.com}}
Category:Daily newspapers published in Nepal