Al-Masry Al-Youm (Arabic: المصري اليوم) (alternative spelling: Al-Misri al-Yawm) is an Egyptian daily, privately-owned newspaper which was first published in June 2004. Almasry Alyoum is published in Arabic and has an Arabic website. The English edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm is currently online and plans to become a weekly print edition. ^[1]

[edit] Founding

Almasry Alyoum was founded by Salah Diab in late 2002, an Egyptian businessman, whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in 1930s & !940s. On the 7th of June 2004, Almasry-Alyoum 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, AlMasry Alyoum was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of national paper of record. Though never cresting a circulation of more than 200,000 (al-Ahram has circulation figures quoted in the 300,000 range, time and again members of the Egyptian media pointed to Al-Masry Al-Youm as the comeuppance of the times, the embodiment of Egyptian print media’s newfound independence and the “best paper in Egypt.” Today (2009) it is regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt. ^[2].

Al-Masry Al-Youm 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 ^[2].

First editor of Chief was late 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 Oct 2006.

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