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Dainik Jagran sweeps the WAN INFRA- Asian media Awards 2019, the most prestigious recognition of excellence for the news publishing industry in Asia

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Dainik Jagran

National, May 09, 2019

8th May 2019 at Singapore, THE 18TH Asian Media Awards were announced and India’s No.1 newspaper, Dainik Jagran bagged top honors with 2 Golds and 2 Silvers in the Best in Marketing and Best in Community Service categories. The Asian Media Awards is the most prestigious recognition of excellence for the news publishing industry in the Asia Pacific, South Asia and Middle-East.

This comes on the back of Dainik Jagran’s recent outstanding performance at the Abby’s at Goafest with 9 awards including bagging the Publisher of the Year trophy for a second year in a row.

Dainik Jagran, bagged a Gold and a Silver in the ‘Best in Marketing’ category for its campaigns Daughter’s Diary and Tackling air pollution respectively.

Dainik Jagran bagged the Gold and Silver in the “Best in Community Service” category for its campaigns on Self Defence for Women and Prevention of Child Abuse respectively.

Dainik Jagran was amongst the top winners along with South China Morning Post at the Asian Media Awards.

On this occasion, Basant Rathore, Sr VP – Strategy, Brand & Business Development, Jagran Prakashan said “"It’s encouraging to see our team creating such innovative ideas consistently. Each of these ideas come from the core essence of our brand. These awards are an apt recognition for the hard work put in by our teams across all markets. I do hope these wins spur us on to further raise benchmarks of excellence.”

For more information, please contact:

Rahul Kathuria

Email - rahul.kathuria@nda.jagran.com

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