Dawn Media Group | |
Company type | Public company |
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Predecessor | Dawn Group of Newspapers [1] |
Founded | 1 February 1947 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan [2] |
Founder | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Yusuf Haroon (Haroon family) [3] [4] |
Headquarters | Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi , Pakistan [5] |
Number of locations | 3 offices (2018 [6] ) |
Area served | Pakistan |
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Products | |
Brands | Dawn, Herald |
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Website | pakistanheraldlimited |
Pakistan Herald Limited, [2] doing business as the Dawn Media Group, is a Pakistani media company based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. [1] It publishes the Dawn newspaper and operates a TV channel, radio stations and websites. It is a listed member of All Pakistan Newspapers Society. [9] [10]
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.
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. [11] [12]
The Dawn Media Group covers three areas: print media (organised as a separate division called Dawn Group of Newspapers), broadcast media, and internet media:
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. [16]
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