| Type | Daily |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner | Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication |
| Editor | Magdy El-Galad |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Political alignment | Independent reformist/liberal |
| Headquarters | Garden City, Cairo, Egypt |
| Official website | http://www.almasryalyoum.com (Arabic) http://almasryalyoum.com/en (English) |
Al-Masry Al-Youm (Arabic: المصرى اليوم al-Maṣrī l-Yawm, IPA: [elˈmɑsˤɾi lˈjoːm], meaning The Egyptian Today) 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.[1][2]
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. As of 2009 it is regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt.[3]
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.[3]