Kantipur Media Group (KMG) has appointed Sanjeev Satgainya as Editor, Features & Investigations, for Kantipur Publications, a newly created role that combines editorial authority with day-to-day oversight of the group’s most consequential journalism.

Satgainya will oversee longform and investigative journalism across Kantipur, Kathmandu Post and their digital platforms, working to deepen and expand our commitment to accountability reporting and in-depth storytelling. The role reports directly to the organisation’s group editorial director.

In his new role, Satgainya will lead an independent team of senior reporters and investigative journalists. He will own the full editorial pipeline for this body of work, from story conception and pitch development through editing, fact-checking, and publication across print and digital platforms. He will work closely with editors of the two newsrooms to commission and develop work of lasting significance, while also collaborating with beat reporters and section editors to identify stories with investigative or longform potential and guide them beyond the daily news cycle.

Satgainya brings more than two decades of experience in Nepal’s English-language journalism to this position. He served as Editor of The Kathmandu Post from February 2020 to September 2022, during the height of Covid-19 pandemic. In those two years, he realigned the paper’s editorial focus to ensure sustained, rigorous coverage of public health alongside continued reporting on politics, governance, accountability, and human rights — work that defined the paper’s journalism during a critical national moment.

“Sanjeev’s appointment reflects our commitment to building an editorial team with the experience and vision to produce journalism that holds power to account and matters to our most loyal readers,” said Anup Kaphle, Group Editorial Director at KMG. “He is an editor who asks hard questions of every story before it sees publication. And his deep knowledge of Nepal’s political and social landscape makes him exactly the right person to lead this work.”

A native of Dang, Satgainya began his journalism career at The Himalayan Times in 2002, where he worked in features reporting before moving to the copy desk and rising to Assistant Editor. He later joined The Kathmandu Post, where he served as Head of News before his appointment as Editor. Over his career, he has been deeply involved in shaping stories from pitch to publication — an editorial instinct that will serve him well in his new role focused on in-depth and investigative work

“If there’s one thing I’ve come to believe in my two decades in journalism, it’s that the stories that take the longest to report are usually the ones that need to be told the most. To now have the mandate, and the institutional support, to pursue exactly that kind of journalism is a privilege and I’m really excited about it,” Satgainya said about his role.

Satgainya has written extensively on social affairs, politics, governance, and democratic institutions. His work has appeared in The Hindu and Himal Southasian, and he has contributed as a columnist and commentator to several Nepali platforms.