In the age of hypermedia, The Egypt Monocle looks beyond the news to provide an authentic voice combining journalistic best practice with local insight to produce contextualized, incisive knowledge – not just information. Building on the team’s vast expertise in informing readers about breaking news, we now want to go the extra mile to fill a gaping hole in local media coverage by providing more i
n-depth, analytical perspectives on politics, business, culture, lifestyle and society. Going back to the basics of journalism, which in today's world are overlooked due to the fast-paced, sound-byte culture, we aim to give voice to the voiceless through an emphasis on human interest stories and development issues affecting the local community. Integrating multimedia content, we will provide a multifaceted view of the news in an age where the medium is the message. We aim to create Egypt's first integrated digital multi-platform media outlet in English owned and operated by the editors and journalists themselves using a business model unique to the local industry.
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Who we are
From the editors and journalists behind the Daily News Egypt brand from 2005-2012, we are the only team with the experience of producing an independent English-language daily – the country’s first – along with an updated online news site. We were the first to harness the power of social media in Egypt and among the first to introduce multimedia content online. We secured over 93,000 followers on Twitter for DNE before it was bought out by another paper, as well as 5,000 Facebook fans and over 2,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel, which garnered almost 2 million views. Our staff members have also built a strong social media following, locally and globally, as respected journalists from the region. This same team now endeavors to create a new, more modern media brand: The Egypt Monocle. As a team, we cultivated over the part seven years a reputation for being professional, objective journalists, whose work was appreciated by a wide spectrum of readers. The local and international media’s reaction to DNE’s sudden closure in April 2012 is testament to the quality and reliability of our work. With a female-dominated newsroom on the management and editorial level, we were always unique both in Egypt and the region. We are credited for having trained and nurtured countless media talents in varying fields who went on to join global media giants such as CNN, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Bloomberg, as well as local media outlets including our main competitors. Our internship program over the years attracted aspiring journalists from prestigious universities in Egypt and abroad, and they have moved on to land jobs as correspondents for international news outlets. It is this experience and team that will be the driving impetus behind creating something new and unique for the local media industry.
