Pakistan's Dawn joins Asia News Network
Dawn, the leading daily in Pakistan, has joined Asia News Network as a full member.
Dawn’s admission completes representation from the five South Asian countries and brings the total ANN membership to 21 in 18 countries.
Zaffar Abbas, Dawn’s editor, signed the membership agreement with ANN at the Ritz Carton Hotel in Singapore on Friday. Pana Janviroj represented ANN at the ceremony in his capacity as executive director.
Dawn is Pakistan’s oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. With headquarters in Karachi, the newspaper is published simultaneously from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, and has a daily circulation of more than 100,000 copies.
Dawn Media Group also operates a 24/7 news television channel called Dawn News, and publishes a number of journals, the most prominent of which is the monthly political magazine Herald.
“I am pleased to be among my Asian peers, working together in fostering journalism and building up a network in the region,” said Abbas.
Pana expressed delight at the admission of Dawn, which will strengthen ANN as the world’s leading media publishing alliance.
Other ANN editors presented at the signing ceremony, which was held on the sidelines of the Holcim Sustainable Construction Awards, were: Mahfuz Anam, editor-in-chief of the Daily Star in Bangladesh; Ravindra Kumar, editor of The Statesman, India; Zacki Yesbbar, news editor of the Island, Sri Lanka; Meidyatama Suryodiningrat , chief editor, the Jakarta Post, Indonesia; Nguyen Tien Le, Vietnam News’ deputy editor-in-chief ; Noel Velasco, news editor at the Philippine Daily Inquirer; David Yeoh, deputy chief editor, The Star, Malaysia; and Zhou Li, editor-in-chief, China Daily Asia-Pacific.
Other witnesses were Linnarz Paul, director of the Media Programme at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Singapore; Paul Hugentobler, member of the executive committee, Holcim, Zurich; Peter Gysel, deputy head of Corporate Communications, Holcim, Zurich; Edward Schwarz, Holcim Foundation, Zurich; and Christian Klick, Star Alliance, Frankfurt.
Asia news Network was founded in 1998 to provide avenues for cooperation among Asian press under the motto “We Know Asia Better”. The website is www.AsiaNewsNet.net.
