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:
Print media
Dawn, its flagship daily English newspaper[13][14]
The Star, Pakistan's most popular evening newspaper, now defunct.
Herald, a current affairs monthly magazine in English,[13][14] now defunct.
Spider, a monthly Internet magazine,[13] now defunct.
Aurora, a marketing and advertising bi-monthly magazine. [15]
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.[16]
