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Dainik Jagran

Front page, 28 March 2010
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Jagran Prakashan Limited
Founded	1942; 83 years ago (1942)
Language	Hindi
Headquarters	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Country	India
Circulation	34 lakh (3.4 million) daily (as of July–December 2018)
OCLC number	416871022
Website	jagran.com
Media of India List of newspapers

Dainik Jagran (lit. transl. Daily awakening) is an Indian Hindi language daily newspaper. It was ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in India by circulation in 2016. In 2019 Quarter 4, according to Indian Readership Survey, Dainik Jagran reported a total readership of 6.86 crore (68.6 million) and was the top publication. It is owned by Jagran Prakashan Limited, a publishing house listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

History

Early history

Dainik Jagran was established in Jhansi by Puranchand Gupta and first published in 1942. Prior to this, Gupta worked as the managing editor of a local magazine and would frequently visit Bombay to get advertisements for it which gave him the required connections and confidence to start a new daily newspaper. Following its establishment, Jagran briefly suspended its publication during the Quit India Movement but resumed soon afterwards. In 1946, Gupta decided to launch the newspaper in Lucknow, which was the capital of United Provinces. In preparation for the launch, he acquired a building on rent and sent machinery to be set up there but soon learned that the newspapers National Herald and Pioneer were in the midst of launching their first Hindi language editions Navjeevan and Swatantra Bharat in the same city. Gupta quickly changed his plans and came to a decision to launch the newspaper in Kanpur instead. The machinery were diverted to Kanpur, new premises rented out and the newspaper eventually launched on 21 September 1947.

The newspaper was faced with financial problems from the beginning and Gupta had to borrow from his family to keep it running. He took to cutting down on editorial costs by relying on syndicates which offered articles at cheaper rates and by getting free article submissions from political players and activists who were hungry for publicity. He was on constant visits to metropolitan cities to sell advertisement space on the newspaper, and hired reporters on a part time basis during his visits for newsgathering in those cities. By the mid 1950s, Gupta had started making pitches for advertisements and advertising the Dainik Jagran itself. He also registered the newspaper at the Registrar of Newspapers for India and joined the industry body Audit Bureau of Circulation and the publisher's club Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society (IENS) where he became an executive member by 1960. In the meantime, P. D. Gupta who was the younger brother of Puranchand launched two editions of the newspaper in Madhya Pradesh; the Rewa edition in 1953 and the Bhopal edition in 1956.

Conflict with Aj

In 1975, Dainik Jagran launched its Gorakhpur edition and brought it into direct conflict with the newspaper Aj. The Kanpur edition, run by Puranchand Gupta was covering four neighbouring districts from the city and had reached a limit where it could no longer increase its circulation in the regional market. The newspaper had become financially secure and had liquid funds at hand, which led Gupta's sons to encourage him into looking at expansion. They had thought of Gorakhpur was the first place to go as it did have any newspaper or an edition that was based in the city at that time. Gorakhpur was instead being covered by the Varanasi-based Aj and the city lay within its circulation area. Aj itself had a monetary surplus and its editor Vinod Shukla was looking to expand the newspaper as he saw a single edition newspaper in Uttar Pradesh to be unviable in the long term. Shukla who had visited Kanpur in 1974 found Jagran to have carried very substandard content and expected an expansion attempt in the city to be easy. The paper had brought out printing machines for Kanpur in December and responded almost immediately after Jagran's Gorakhpur launch by launching its own Kanpur edition in April 1975.

The Kanpur edition of Aj had launched only two months before the imposition of Emergency rule and subsequent press censorship. Shivprasad Gupta, the owner of Aj was unsure about the expansion but Shukla supported by Gupta's son used the period as an opportunity to consolidate the newspaper. The Emergency created a demand for critical journalism which the newspaper provided and enabled it to make an entry into Jagran's market share. On the streets of Kanpur, fights broke out between men hired by the two newspapers who used weapons such as batons and improvised firearms against each other for control over offices, territory and distribution. In midst of the conflict hawkers gained significant influence over the newspapers; initially Aj was charged a commission rate of 20% while Jagran was charged 30%, but the hawkers forced the former to increase its rate over the latter, marking the beginning of a period of fierce negotiations over commission rates and recurrent increases in the rates for both newspapers. Eventually the conflict ended when the two newspapers decided to join hands against the hawkers and pushed the commission rate back down to a fixed 30%.

Expansion

In 2003, several other city editions were added. The cities included Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Panipat and Bhagalpur. In 2004, Haldwani and Ludhiana Editions were also launched. Muzaffarpur, Jammu and Dharamshala editions came in 2005.

Criticism

Dainik Jagran observed silence over Delhi violence and was accused of suppressing the incident.

Dainik Jagran is also accused of running false narratives in support of the BJP government. It ran a news covering Hathras gangrape and murder incident declaring it as a false case of rape and tried to defend the rapists which were later refuted by the CBI when it said that gangrape did occur and the state tried to do a cover-up.

Dainik Jagran is accused of running smear campaigns against Indian mathematician and educationalist, Anand Kumar printing false news about his institution called Super 30.

See also

• Halla Bol campaign

References

1. "Highest Circulated Daily Newspapers (language wise)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
2. Aneez, Z.; Chattapadhyay, S.; Parthasarathi, V.; Nielsen, R. K. (2016). "Digital Transition of Newspapers in India: Dainik Jagran, Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama". Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition. Centre for Internet and Society. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism – via University of Oxford.
3. "Details of most circulated publications for the audit period Jan – Jun 2016" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
4. "INDIAN READERSHIP SURVEY 2019 Q4" (PDF). Indian Readership Survey.
5. Nag, Tirthankar; Basu, Rituparna; Dasgupta, Buroshiva (1 January 2017). "Dainik Jagran: sustaining leadership in the newspaper industry". Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies. 7 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1108/EEMCS-05-2016-0083. ISSN 2045-0621.
6. Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. pp. 54–56. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
7. ^ Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. p. 56. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
8. Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
9. ^ Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. p. 92. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
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11. ^ Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
12. Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere. SAGE Publications. p. 269. ISBN 978-81-7829-971-6.
13. "History of Dainik Jagran Newspaper | Newspaper Advertising Encyclopedia". 6 June 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
14. "Jagran ignores Delhi violence, Ujala leads with it — a look at front pages of Hindi press". The print.
15. David, Supriti. "How Dainik Jagran and TOI's Lucknow editions ignored the Hathras rape". Newslaundry. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
16. Amarnath Tewary (22 August 2018). "Bihar Super-30 founder faces smear campaign". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019. When asked who is behind all this, he quipped, "everyone knows in Patna who is he…why should I take his name?" Is he former DGP Abhyanand who was earlier associated with Super-30 for five years?, Mr. Kumar did not respond.

External links

• Official website (in Hindi)

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