Almasry Alyoum
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Al-Masry Al-Youm is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper
that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic and has a website in both Arabic and English. It strives to be a full-service multimedia news organization for Egypt.
has circulation figures quoted in the 300,000 range), members of the Egyptian media pointed to it as the embodiment of Egyptian print media’s newfound independence and the “best paper in Egypt.” As of 2009 it is regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt.
It has successfully responded to the Egyptian media market as a whole and not a single political party, like many Egyptian opposition papers, and was unafraid to take on hard-hitting topics, like governmental news outlets. Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work.
The first editor-in-chief was Magdi Mohana, followed by Anwar El Hawari, who resigned in January 2005. The third and current editor-in-chief is Magdy El Galad. Hisham Kassem, former CEO, left the newspaper in October 2006.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic and has a website in both Arabic and English. It strives to be a full-service multimedia news organization for Egypt.
Founding
The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in 1930s and 1940s. On 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. The paper initially circulated primarily amongst Cairo’s intellectual elite, providing objective news coverage in the belief that good news would beat sensationalist reporting found in other Egyptian print media. After 3 years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. Though never reaching a circulation of more than 200,000 (Al-AhramAl-Ahram
Al-Ahram , founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya . It is majority owned by the Egyptian government....
has circulation figures quoted in the 300,000 range), members of the Egyptian media pointed to it as the embodiment of Egyptian print media’s newfound independence and the “best paper in Egypt.” As of 2009 it is regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt.
It has successfully responded to the Egyptian media market as a whole and not a single political party, like many Egyptian opposition papers, and was unafraid to take on hard-hitting topics, like governmental news outlets. Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work.
The first editor-in-chief was Magdi Mohana, followed by Anwar El Hawari, who resigned in January 2005. The third and current editor-in-chief is Magdy El Galad. Hisham Kassem, former CEO, left the newspaper in October 2006.
External links
- Al-Masry Al-Youm (English) official website