Dainik Jagran

Dainik Jagran

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Jagaran Prakashan Ltd.
Founded	1942
Political alignment	Independent[1]
Language	Hindi
Headquarters	Jagran Building, 2, Sarvodya Nagar, Kanpur-208 005, India
Circulation	2,168,000 Daily
Official website	jagran.com

Coordinates: 26°28′50″N 80°18′07″E / 26.48050°N 80.30200°E / 26.48050; 80.30200 Dainik Jagran (Hindi: दैनिक जागरण) is a Hindi language daily broadsheet newspaper in India. According to the IRS Q1 2010, Dainik Jagran ranks No. 1 among the dailies with a Total Readership (TR) of 54,254,000.^[2]

Overview

Dainik Jagran was founded by Puranchandra Gupta in Jhansi in 1942. In 1947 Dainik Jagran shifted its headquarters to Kanpur, where it launched its second edition on 21 September 1947. The Rewa and Bhopal editions were added in 1953 and 1956. In 1975, publication of Gorakhpur edition started, followed by Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow in 1979. In 1984, Meerut edition was launched, followed by Agra in 1986, Bareilly in 1989 and Delhi in 1990. Between 1997 and 2006, eighteen new editions were added, and through 2007-08, six new editions were launched.^[3]

More than 55.7 million people read Dainik Jagran making it the largest read daily in India.  Currently, Dainik Jagran’s 36 editions are published across eleven states of India. Its editions are published from the following places:

• Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Rewa
• Uttar Pradesh: Kanpur, Jhansi, Varanasi, Agra, Allahabad, Aligarh, Bareilly, Gorakhpur
• Jharkhand: Ranchi, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur
• Uttarakhand: Dehradun
• Punjab: Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar
• Haryana: Panipat,Hissar
• Bihar: Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur
• Himachal Pradesh: Dharamshala
• Delhi
• West Bengal:Siliguri
• Jammu & Kashmir: Jammu

The paper's website,jagran.com , also carries content aimed at teenagers, cooks, upwardly-mobile women, education,Bollywood, and local news.

Educational initiatives (Dainik Jagran Group)

• JIMMC (Jagran Institute of Management and Mass Communication), Noida
• JIMMC, School of Animation, Noida
• JIMMC (Jagran Institute of Management and Mass Communication), Kanpur
• JIDA, Kanpur
• JIM (Jagran Institute of Management), Kanpur
• Jagran Instittute of Digital Animation,Kanpur
• Jagran Public School (JPS)

References

1. ^ "World Newspapers and Magazines". Worldpress.org. http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/ASIA/India.cfm. Retrieved 30 December 2006. 
2. ^ "India's 15 most-read newspapers". Rediff. http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/may/05/slide-show-1-indias-most-read-newspapers.htm. Retrieved 5 December 2010. 
3. ^ "Corporate Profile". Jagran Prakashan Ltd. http://www.jplcorp.in/about/jagprofile.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-16. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Dainik Jagran Website (portal at Yahoo India)