The Dawn Media Group is the trading name of Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Ltd., a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i media company. It started using this trading name in 2008 "to reflect the Group's transformation from a publisher of newspapers and magazines into a powerful multimedia group" (from a 2011 corporate brochure).

Ownership

The Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

 based group is owned by the powerful Haroon and Saigol families. It's CEO is Hameed Haroon

Hameed Haroon

-Introduction:Hameed Haroon is Chief Executive Officer of Dawn Media Group , Pakistan’s leading media conglomerate. The Group comprises Pakistan Herald Publications Limited, the printers and publishers of the Dawn newspaper and three leading magazines, the Herald Spider and Aurora ;...

, and its chairman is Amber Haroon Saigol, daughter of the previous chairman Mahmoud Haroon

Mahmoud Haroon

Mahmoud Abdullah Haroon Urdu: محمود ہارون was a veteran Pakistani politician with career spanning over five decades and chairman of the Dawn Media Group. He was the second son of Haji Sir Abdullah Haroon, the first being Yusuf Haroon, one of the leaders of Pakistan Movement...

 and the 11th richest individual in Pakistan in 1993 (the only year that the Pakistani government has published the wealth of the country's richest citizens). A list over the 40 richest families in Pakistan, published in 2006, ranks the Saigol family as the sixth richest and the Haroons and the 16th richest.

Structure

The Dawn Media Group covers three areas: print media (organised as a separate division called Dawn Group of Newspapers

Dawn Group of Newspapers

The Dawn Group of Newspapers is Pakistan's second largest newspaper group, owned by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited , which in turn is a subsidiary of the Dawn Media Group....

), broadcast media, and internet media:

• Print media
  • Dawn
    Dawn (newspaper)
    Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...
    
    , its flagship newspaper
  • The Star
    The Star (Pakistan)
    The Star is Pakistan's most widely read English Language evening newspaper. It was founded in 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan.It is published as part of the Dawn Group of Newspapers by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited . Focusing on controversial and current issues, the STAR has gained a reputation...
    
    , an evening newspaper
  • Herald, a current affairs monthly
  • Spider, a monthly Internet magazine
  • Aurora, a marketing and advertising bi-monthly
• Broadcast media
  • Dawn News
    Dawn News
    Dawn News was Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited , Pakistan's largest English-language media group. The test transmission of the station occurred on May 25, 2007, and the channel went live on July 23, 2007...
    
    , 24-hour news channel, broadcasting in English 2007-2010, but since 2010 in Urdu.
  • City FM 89
    City fm 89
    CityFM89 is a Pakistani radio station network. It is broadcast from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad. It was established in 2004 and is a subsidiary company of the The DAWN Media Group CityFM89 is Pakistan’s No.1 FM Network...
    
    , a music radio channel
• Internet media
  • Dawn.com, a news web site