Malayala Manorama

Malayala Manorama
Front page of the newspaper
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Malayala Manorama Company Ltd
Founder(s)Kandathil Varghese Mappillai
Editor-in-chiefMammen Mathew
Managing editorPhilip Mathew
Founded1888; 136 years ago (1888)
LanguageMalayalam
Ceased publication1938
Relaunched1947; 77 years ago (1947)
HeadquartersKottayam, Kerala, India
Circulation1,81,60,81 Daily (as of Jan - Dec 2023)[1]
Readership8.47 million (IRS 2019)[2]
ISSN0972-0022
OCLC number802436310
Websitewww.manoramaonline.com Edit this at Wikidata

Malayala Manorama is a morning newspaper in Malayalam published from Kottayam, Kerala, India by the Malayala Manorama Company Limited. Currently headed by Mammen Mathew, it was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1888, and currently has a readership of over 8 million (with a circulation base of over 1.9 million copies).[3][4] It is also the second oldest Malayalam newspaper in Kerala in circulation, after Deepika, which is also published from Kottayam. Manorama also publishes an online edition.[5]

According to World Association of Newspapers, as of 2016, it was the fourteenth most circulated newspaper in the world.[6] According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations 2022 figures, it is the 2nd largest circulating newspaper in India (behind Dainik Jagran) and the largest circulating newspaper in Kerala.

  1. ^ "Highest Circulated Daily Newspapers (language wise)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ IRS 2019 Q4 HighlightsArchived 2 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations and ABC India (National Newspapers Total Circulation-2018) Download Archived 25 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) (January-June 2013)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Malayala Manorama EPaper". epaper.manoramaonline.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  6. ^ Milosevic, Mira (2016). "World Press Trends 2016" (PDF). WAN-IFRA. p. 58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.