Anup Kaphle, a Nepali journalist who spent two decades in international newsrooms, has been named Group Editorial Director at Kantipur Media Group, the highest editorial role at the country’s largest media conglomerate.

In the newly created position, Kaphle will oversee editorial operations across all of KMG's properties — Kantipur Daily, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur Television, Kantipur FM, and their digital platforms. He will set editorial vision and standards across all platforms, integrate coverage strategies, and steer the organisation through the pressures of the coming decade — including the accelerating shift from print to digital, and artificial intelligence's growing influence on how news is made and consumed. The role will report directly to managing director of Kantipur Media Group, Sambhav Sirohiya.

Kaphle’s path to the role is unusual in Nepali journalism: a career built largely abroad, across some of the most consequential newsrooms of the digital era, before a deliberate return home. He was most recently the Editor-in-Chief of Rest of World, the nonprofit publication covering technology's impact across the Global South and emerging economies. Under his leadership, Rest of World won the National Magazine Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and Best in Business Awards from SABEW — recognition for coverage that reframed how the world understood technology's reach beyond Silicon Valley. He has held editorial roles at The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News, focusing on coverage of international news and national security, and led Roads & Kingdoms, a James Beard Award-winning publication focused on food, travel and culture.

A native of Pokhara who began his journalism career at The Himalayan Times, Kaphle previously led The Kathmandu Post as Editor-in-Chief from 2018 to 2020 — a tenure credited with deepening the paper’s commitment to investigative journalism and bringing it closer to its readers.

Sirohiya said the Group Editorial Director role was created specifically to bring unified editorial vision and stronger leadership across KMG's platforms. “Over our three decades, we have built a journalism we are proud of,” he said. “We believe Kaphle will strengthen and elevate that further.” Sirohiya described the moment as a critical juncture for Nepal's democracy and media landscape, adding that Kaphle's deep ties to Nepali journalism made him the right leader for it. “He combines deep roots in Nepali journalism with an unmatched understanding of where media is heading — across platforms, across audiences, and across a rapidly shifting global information landscape,” he added.

Kaphle said he views the role as a rare opportunity. “Nepal is at a decisive moment in its democratic future, and the credibility of information itself is under pressure,” he said. “To be able to build the next chapter of Kantipur — at a time when independent, responsible journalism matters so much — is something I take very seriously. And I'm genuinely excited for the challenge.”

Read the full statement by Kantipur Media Group here.