doing business as
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the Dawn Media Group, is a Pakistani
media company
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Broadcast media transmit information e ...
based in
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
,
Sindh
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, Pakistan. It publishes the ''Dawn'' newspaper and operates a TV channel, radio stations and websites. It is a listed member of
All Pakistan Newspapers Society
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...
.
Although it has faced tough competition from the
Jang Group
Jang Media Group (), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. Its headquarters is in Printing House, Karachi, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's largest group of new ...
, it has still managed to remain popular. The group is headed by the Pakistani media mogul Hameed Haroon, its current CEO.
Ownership
The
Karachi
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based group is owned by the powerful Haroon and Saigol families. The CEO is Hameed Haroon, and its chairman is Amber Haroon Saigol, daughter of the previous chairman
Mahmoud Haroon
Mahmoud Abdullah Haroon ( ur, ; 1920 – 6 November 2008) was a Pakistani politician with a career spanning over five decades who served as chairman of the Dawn Media Group, publisher of many newspapers in Pakistan.
and the 11th richest individual in Pakistan in 1993. A list of the top 10 richest families in Pakistan ranks Saigol family as the 8th richest and the Haroon's the 16th richest as of 2015.
Structure
The Dawn Media Group covers three areas: print media (organised as a separate division called Dawn Group of Newspapers), broadcast media, and internet media:
* Print media
** ''
Dawn
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'', its flagship daily English newspaperList of Member Publications include Dawn newspaper, Herald magazine, Spider magazine on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website Retrieved 2 April 2018
** ''
The Star
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'', Pakistan's most popular evening newspaper
** ''
Herald
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Heralds were originally messengers sent by monarchs or noblemen to ...
'', a current affairs monthly magazine in English
** ''
Spider
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'', a monthly Internet magazine
** ''Aurora'', a marketing and advertising bi-monthly magazine
** ''
Young World
''Young World'' is a Pakistani children's magazine, published by ''Dawn''. It has drawings, poems, and stories with illustrations that are contributed by children. It has reviews of ''books'', ''movies'', ''songs'' and ''websites''. It also has ' ...
'', children's monthly magazine
* Broadcast media
** ''
Dawn News
Dawn News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language media group.
The test transmission of the station occu ...
'', 24-hour news channel, broadcasting in English 2007–2010, but since 2010 in Urdu language
** ''
City FM 89
CityFM89 is a Pakistani radio station, headquartered in Karachi and broadcast from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad. It was established in July 2004 and is a subsidiary company of the Dawn Media Group. It had an objective to set a trend ...
'', a music radio channel
* Internet media
**
Dawn.com
''Dawn'' is a Pakistani English-language newspaper that was launched in British India in 1941. It is the largest English newspaper in Pakistan, and also serves as the country's newspaper of record. ''Dawn'' is the flagship publication of the ...
, a news website
** DawnNews.Tv, news website in Urdu language
**Teeli, digital media brand specialised in entertainment programming
**Images.Dawn.com, culture and entertainment website
* Exhibitions
** Dawn Education Expo, an annual education festival
'Dawn leaks' controversy
In 2016, one of the journalists working at Dawn (newspaper),
Cyril Almeida
Cyril Almeida(Urdu: سائیرل المیڈا) is a Pakistani journalist who served as the assistant editor and columnist for ''Dawn''. Born and raised in Karachi, Almeida received his B.A from LUMS and studied jurisprudence as a Rhodes Scho ...
, wrote an article led to the controversy called ''Dawn leaks''. Cyril had reported that during the
National Security Council (Pakistan)
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(NSC) meeting between the civilian leaders and the military leaders of Pakistan, some civilian leaders had warned the military leaders about the risk of Pakistan's growing diplomatic isolation due to lack of action against some Pakistani militant groups. Pakistan's military leadership was clearly upset over reports of alleged leaking of this classified information to a Pakistani journalist by some civilian leaders attending that NSC meeting. After the controversy would not die down,
Pervaiz Rashid
Pervaiz Rashid ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician, and the former Federal Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage (Pakistan), Minister of Information, Broadcasting, and National Heritage and Minister for Law, Justice and Hum ...
(Minister of Information) and
Tariq Fatemi
Syed Tariq Fatemi ( ur, ; born 9 July 1944), is a Pakistani diplomat who is currently serving as the Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. He previously served as Pakistan Ambassador to the United States ...
(Special Assistant to the Prime Minister) had to step down as a result of this controversy.
Awards and recognition
*
Hilal-i-Imtiaz
The ''Hilaal-e-Imtiaz'' (; ), also spelled and transliterated as Hilāl-e-Imtiyāz, is the second-highest (in the hierarchy of "Hilal") civilian award and honour given to both civilians and military officers of the Pakistan Armed Forces by the ...
Award by the
President of Pakistan
The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.Hameed Haroon's Hilal-i-Imtiaz award in 2011 Dawn (newspaper), Published 23 March 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2018