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Pakistan Herald Limited
Dawn Media Group
Company typePublic company
Industry
  • Media
  • publishing
  • broadcasting
PredecessorDawn Group of Newspapers [1]
Founded1 February 1947;77 years ago (1947-02-01) in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan [2]
Founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Yusuf Haroon (Haroon family) [3] [4]
HeadquartersHaroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road,
Karachi
,
Pakistan [5]
Number of locations
3 offices (2018 [6] )
Area served
Pakistan
Key people
  • Amber Haroon Saigol (Chairperson)
  • Hameed Haroon (CEO)
[7]
Products
BrandsDawn, Herald
Subsidiaries
  • Pakistan Herald Publication (Private) Limited.
  • Haroon Sons (Private) Limited
[7] [8]
Website pakistanheraldlimited.com

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]

Contents

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. [11] [12]

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:

'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. [16]

Awards and recognition

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  11. ↑ 'Top 10 Richest Pakistanis', ranked on ilmkidunya.com website Published 12 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2018
  12. ↑ 'Richest Individuals of Pakistan', list per the Government of Pakistan wealth tax directory of 1993. Retrieved 3 June 2018
  13. 1 2 3 List of Member Publications include Dawn newspaper, Herald magazine, Spider magazine on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website. Retrieved 2 April 2018
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  17. ↑ Hameed Haroon's Hilal-i-Imtiaz award in 2011 Dawn (newspaper), Published 23 March 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2018
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