Dawn Media Group Explained

Pakistan Herald Limited
Trade Name:	Dawn Media Group
Type:	Public company
Predecessor:	Dawn Group of Newspapers
Successors:	-->
Founded:	in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Founder:	Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Yusuf Haroon (Haroon family)^[1] ^[2]
Hq Location:	Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road
Hq Location City:	Karachi
Hq Location Country:	Pakistan^[3]
Area Served:	Pakistan
Num Locations:	3 offices
Num Locations Year:	2018^[4]
Brands:	Dawn, Herald
Owners:	-->
Subsid:	^[5] ^[6]

Pakistan Herald Limited,^[7] doing business as the Dawn Media Group, is a Pakistani media company based in Karachi, Sindh, 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.^{[8] [9]}

Although it has faced tough competition from the Jang Group, it has still managed to remain popular. The group is headed by the Pakistani media mogul Hameed Haroon, its current CEO.

Ownership

The Karachi 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 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.^{[10] [11]}

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, its flagship daily English newspaper^{[12] [13]}
  • The Star, Pakistan's most popular evening newspaper, now defunct.
  • Herald, a current affairs monthly magazine in English, now defunct.
  • Spider, a monthly Internet magazine, now defunct.
  • Aurora, a marketing and advertising bi-monthly magazine. ^[14]
  • Young World, children's monthly magazine
• Broadcast media
  • Dawn News Urdu - 24-hour Urdu News Channel. (720p (16:9, HDTV)
  • Dawn News English HD - Coming Soon
  • Dawn Entertainment HD - Coming Soon
  • Dawn Films - film distribution division which released the film 7 Din Mohabbat In.
  • City FM 89, a music radio channel
• Internet media
  • Dawn.com, 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, wrote an article that led to the controversy called Dawn leaks. Cyril had reported that during the National Security Council (Pakistan) (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 (Minister of Information) and Tariq Fatemi (Special Assistant to the Prime Minister) had to step down as a result of this controversy.^[15]

Awards and recognition

• Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award by the President of Pakistan in 2011 for Hameed Haroon, the CEO of Dawn Media Group^[16]

External links

• • Pakistan Herald Publications Limited, company info listed on Pakistan Business Journal website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Obituary: Former governor of West Pakistan no more . Dawn. Pakistan . 17 February 2011.
2. Web site: Dawn Media Group . Dawn. Pakistan . 27 June 2012.
3. Web site: Dawn.com – Terms & Conditions of Use . Dawn. Pakistan.
4. Web site: Dawn Online Advertising . Dawn. Pakistan.
5. Web site: Pakistan Herald Limited . pakistanheraldlimited.com . https://archive.today/20180821000000/http://www.pakistanheraldlimited.com/ . 21 August 2018 . 21 August 2018 . 19 July 2019 . live .
6. Web site: Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Limited: Private Company Information. Bloomberg L.P.. 10 November 2018.
7. Web site: Pakistan Herald Limited . OpenCorporates . 10 November 2018.
8. http://www.apns.com.pk/client_result.php Pakistan Herald Publications, listed member of All Pakistan Newspapers Society website
9. Web site: The day Dawn became Herald (publication's history). 27 April 2013. JournalismPakistan.com website. 2 April 2018.
10. http://www.ilmkidunya.com/picturestory/top-10-richest-pakistanis-138.aspx 'Top 10 Richest Pakistanis', ranked on ilmkidunya.com website
11. http://richpaki.tripod.com/richest.htm 'Richest Individuals of Pakistan', list per the Government of Pakistan wealth tax directory of 1993
12. http://www.apns.com.pk/member_publication/index.php List of Member Publications include Dawn newspaper, Herald magazine, Spider magazine on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website
13. Web site: Pakistan's top 5 pop culture moments that made waves in 2017. Sabah Bano Malik. 10 January 2018. Arab News (newspaper). 2 April 2018.
14. Web site: Home - Aurora . 2023-08-02 . aurora.dawn.com . en.
15. Web site: Prime Minister removes Tariq Fatemi over Dawn leaks. Ali Ahmed. 29 April 2017. Business Recorder (newspaper). 2 April 2018.
16. http://www.dawn.com/news/615425/seven-mps-decline-to-receive-pakistan-day-awards, Hameed Haroon's Hilal-i-Imtiaz award in 2011