29 Facts About Dainik Jagran

Dainik Jagran was established in Jhansi, a district town in United Provinces, by Puranchand Gupta and first published in 1942.

In 1946, Gupta decided that Dainik Jagran should be launched in the city of Lucknow, which was the capital of United Provinces.

Dainik Jagran reflecting the beliefs of its founder, took a right wing pro-Hindutva line from its inception.

Dainik Jagran 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.

Dainik Jagran 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.

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Dainik Jagran inducted his six sons into the newspaper's management while they were still in school.

In 1975, Dainik Jagran launched its Gorakhpur edition which brought it into direct conflict with the newspaper Aj.

Shukla who had visited Kanpur in 1974 found Dainik Jagran to have carried very substandard content and expected an expansion attempt in the city to be easy.

In December 1995, Dainik Jagran published a story with the claim that Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, had an illegitimate 12 year old daughter.

For Dainik Jagran, it was the second and third generation of the proprietors who charted the expansion and localisation strategy of the newspaper.

Dainik Jagran adopted a mass media content strategy of localisation through trivia laden local news, and employed local part time stringers for its newsgathering operations.

In 1992, Dainik Jagran had only 55 full time staff correspondents and 300 "working journalists" in a total staff strength of 700, the rest being stringers, regional correspondents, etc.

Dainik Jagran launched its Aligarh edition in 1993, the Dehradun edition in 1997 and the Jalandhar edition in 1999.

In 2000, the Dainik Jagran launched three editions in Hissar, Patna and Allahabad, and in the following year it launched an edition in Moradabad.

When Uttaranchal became a state with Dehradun as its capital, Dainik Jagran's circulation experienced a four fold growth in the new state due to the increased commercial importance of the state's capital.

Dainik Jagran launched editions in Bhagalpur and Panipat in the same year, two more editions in the cities of Ludhiana and Nainital in 2004 and then the Muzaffarpur, Dharamshala and Jammu editions in 2005.

From 2004 onwards, Dainik Jagran had emerged as the newspaper with the largest readership, having displaced Dainik Bhaskar that had occupied the position since 2002.

On 8 July 2006, Dainik Jagran launched its Siliguri edition, just two days after the Nathu La mountain pass was opened with the expectation that the city would become a major commercial centre.

Dainik Jagran adopted across the board cost cutting measures; the newspapers halved the number of pages and consolidated printing.

On 23 May 2021, Dainik Jagran published a frontpage story that claimed that the mass burials were normal, that no increase in deaths had occurred and that those who were buried had died of leprosy and snake bites, dismissing the reports from other news publishers as mere sensationalism.

Alt News contacted reporters at Dainik Jagran's Prayaraj edition who refused to comment on the story but two of them confirmed that there was an unprecedented increase in the number of mass burials.

Dainik Jagran was first named in a 2010 report to the Press Council of India as one of the newspapers publishing undisclosed paid news for celebrities, politicians and companies.

Dainik Jagran is a right-wing newspaper, that espouses the Hindutva ideology.

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

Dainik Jagran is accused of running false narratives in support of the BJP government.

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Trademark name "Dainik Jagran" is the subject of an ongoing civil lawsuit initiated by the G D Gupta family against Jagran Prakashan in 2007.

Dainik Jagran Prakashan rejected all claims made by the lawsuit, contesting that the two agreements had any impact over the rights and reiterated its claim of exclusive rights on the trademark name.

In light of the fact that 35 out of the 39 editions of Dainik Jagran are registered under Jagran Prakashan, the court did not find sufficient grounds for an interim restraining order on the use of the trademark name.

Dainik Jagran has been allowed to go ahead with its transfer of shares and others mergers and acquisitions while the case continues to be litigated in court.