Al-Monitor
Type of site
Online newspaper
Available inEnglish, Turkish
OwnerJamal Daniel (private)
URLal-monitor.com
CommercialYes
Launched13 February 2012
Content license
Copyright

Al-Monitor (Arabic: المونيتور) is a news website launched in February 2012 by the Syrian-American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel[1] and based in Washington, DC,[2] United States. Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East.

History and organization

Al-Monitor was launched on 13 February 2012 by Jamal Daniel (who was born in Syria, but grew up in Lebanon).[3][4] It was founded with the intention to publish a diverse set of perspectives on the region, bridging the gap of information available to both those in the Middle East and those elsewhere with a desire to better understand a rapidly changing region.[5]

In 2018, Al-Monitor partnered with North Base Media which was founded by Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic to manage Al-Monitor in order "to provide top-level operational and financial decision-making, and work with the company to explore possible content and commercial avenues."[6]

At its founding, the site also translated content from countries in the Middle East; however, the site now only provides original content and does not translate from partners. Among its media partners were El Khabar, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Azzaman, Calcalist, Yedioth Ahronoth, Al-Qabas, An-Nahar, As-Safir (now closed), Al-Hayat, Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal, Habertürk, Milliyet, Radikal (now closed), Sabah, Taraf (now closed), Al Khaleej, and Al-Tagheer.[7]

Content

Al-Monitor features reporting and analysis by journalists and experts from the Middle East, with special focus sections (that Al-Monitor terms "pulses") on Egypt, the Persian Gulf, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, North Africa, Palestine, Syria, Turkey as well as Russia's relationship with the Middle East.

In 2015, Al-Monitor relaunched its website and expanded coverage to include further reporting on Washington, the addition of a culture section, a new podcast and video coverage.[8][9]

Contributors have included Vitaly Naumkin, director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Kadri Gursel, formerly and editor with Cumhuriyet; Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution; Amberin Zaman, formerly a Turkey correspondent for The Economist; Sultan al Qassemi, former columnist with the United Arab Emirates–based The National and one of Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011 selections;[10] Barbara Slavin, former diplomatic correspondent for USA Today and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; Laura Rozen, a former foreign policy reporter for Politico, Foreign Policy, and Yahoo; and Madawi al-Rasheed, professor of social anthropology at King's College London; the late Cairo-based political analyst Bassem Sabry, an Egyptian writer who wrote extensively on Egypt and the Arab Spring;[11] Akiva Eldar, a long-time Israeli political columnist formerly with Haaretz, and Gaza-based Asmaa al-Ghoul.

Awards

In 2014, the International Press Institute awarded Al-Monitor its Free Media Pioneer Award, stating that Al-Monitor's "unrivalled reporting and analysis exemplify the invaluable role that innovative and vigorously independent media can play in times of change and upheaval".[12]

In 2017, the Online News Association awarded Al-Monitor an Online Journalism Award for Best Explanatory Reporting for the series: "Middle East Lobbying: The Influence Game".[13] The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing awarded Al-Monitor a Best in Business Award for its Middle East lobbying newsletter in 2019.[14]

Reception

In January 2013, Ian Burrell of The Independent called Al-Monitor "an ambitious website that pulls together the commentary of distinguished writers from across the region."[15][16] In 2012, former The Washington Post foreign affairs blogger Max Fisher called Al-Monitor "an invaluable Web-only publication following the Middle East."[17] The Huffington Post has referred to Al-Monitor as "increasingly a daily must-read for insightful commentary on the Middle East,"[18] and The Economist recommended Al-Monitor's Egypt[19] and Iran[20] coverage in its What to Read section.

References

  1. ↑ "About". The Levant Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "5 years in, Al-Monitor is relaunching its website and expanding its coverage". Poynter. 2017-08-22. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26.
  3. ↑ "About Us". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Jamal Daniel". www.about-jamaldaniel.com. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  5. ↑ "About". www.al-monitor.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Crest Media to partner with North Base Media in managing Al-Monitor". MarketWatch. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  7. ↑ "About Us". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  8. ↑ Grinapol, Corinne (August 23, 2017). "Al-Monitor Relaunches". www.adweek.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  9. ↑ "5 years in, Al-Monitor is relaunching its website and expanding its coverage". Poynter. 2017-08-22. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. ↑ Fastenberg, Dan (28 March 2011). "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011". Time. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  11. ↑ "Top Twitter Influentials in MENA". Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  12. ↑ "Al-Monitor named Free Media Pioneer Award winner". ipi.media. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  13. ↑ "Middle East Lobbying: The Influence Game". Online Journalism Awards. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  14. ↑ "2019 Best in Business Honorees – Judging Comments – SABEW". Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  15. ↑ Burrell, Ian (29 January 2013). "Rupert Murdoch's Twitter slap-down has big implications - and not just for News Corp editors". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  16. ↑ "Al-Monitor named Free Media Pioneer Award winner," Archived 2014-04-08 at the Wayback Machine International Press Institute (IPI), (26 February 2014). Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  17. ↑ Fisher, Max (October 22, 2012). "What then-U.S. national security adviser for Iran says about 'Argo'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  18. ↑ "Just Foreign Policy's Iran Online Petition Urges New York Times To Investigate Story Claims". 2012-04-23. Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  19. ↑ "On Egypt". The Economist. 2013-09-09. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  20. ↑ "On Iran". The Economist. 2013-09-23. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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