Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Malayala Manorama Company Ltd |
Founder(s) | Kandathil Varghese Mappillai |
Editor-in-chief | Mammen Mathew |
Managing editor | Philip Mathew |
Founded | 1888 |
Language | Malayalam |
Ceased publication | 1938 |
Relaunched | 1947 |
Headquarters | Kottayam, Kerala, India |
Circulation | 1,81,60,81 Daily (as of Jan - Dec 2023)[1] |
Readership | 8.47 million (IRS 2019)[2] |
ISSN | 0972-0022 |
OCLC number | 802436310 |
Website | www |
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.