Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work. 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. As of 2009 it was regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt. After 3 three years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. It has been said that the paper's launch 'helped inaugurate a new opening for independent media in Egypt.'. It 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. Until Mohamed Salmawi served as editor-in-chief of the daily when Ali Al Sayed was appointed to the post. Magdi El Galad is one of the former editors-in-chief of the paper.

The publisher of the daily is Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication. In 2004, its establishment was finalized, and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of Al Masry Al Youm. 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 the 1930s and 1940s. History and profile Al-Masry Al-Youm Caricature It strives to be a full-service multimedia news organization for Egypt.

An English version of the website was introduced in 2009 as the Al-masry Al-youm English Edition, which later evolved into Egypt Independent. It is published in Arabic as is its website,.

Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and PublicationĪl-Masry Al-Youm ( Arabic: المصري اليوم al-Maṣrī l-Yawm, IPA:, meaning The Egyptian Today) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004.

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