Al-Masry Al-Youm

What is Al-Masry Al-Youm?

Al-Masry Al-Youm (المصري اليوم) is a Cairo daily newspaper published at almasryalyoum.com.^[1]

Media Ownership Monitor Egypt records that the paper was founded by Salah Diab and that it belongs to "Al Masry Establishment for Press, Printing and Publishing"; the profile gives the Arabic form of the publisher's name as "Egyptian Press, Printing, Publishing and Advertising Foundation", so the two forms are not translations of one another.^[1]

The same project's print section groups the title among the Egyptian dailies it classifies as privately rather than state owned, in contrast to Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar and Al-Gomhuria, which it records as state-owned.^[2] That classification is the monitoring project's, and its profiles carry their own retrieval dates.

What does Al-Masry Al-Youm cover?

The paper is a general daily. The Media Ownership Monitor profile of the title does not itemise a sports desk or sports supplement, and no statement by the publisher describing its sports operation could be retrieved.^[1]

What a single day's edition carries is not evidence of standing coverage and no sample is offered here. Where dated Egyptian sports facts are needed, the governing bodies' records remain the citable source: CAF's record of Al Ahly's twelfth continental title in May 2024^[3] and its record of Zamalek's five, the last in 2002.^[4]

What a general daily's sports pages carry alongside match reporting is the administrative news that dates the Egyptian season: the spectator limit for Egyptian Premier League matches was raised from 10,000 to 20,000 with effect from the thirteenth matchday of 2023–24, on the announcement of the president of the Egyptian Premier League, Ahmed Diab, reported on 18 February 2024.^[5]

How large is Al-Masry Al-Youm's audience?

Media Ownership Monitor Egypt's profile reports 80,000 copies distributed daily and gives an audience share value of 16, which it states is estimated on data from the portal Masrawy.^[1] That is an estimate on a stated basis, not a certified circulation audit.

No audited circulation certificate for the title could be retrieved, and no Egyptian press-audit body's figures could be obtained for this page. The monitoring project's print section gives no circulation figures for the outlets it profiles and reports category-level survey data instead, with Egyptian newspaper readership falling from 25 per cent in 2013 to 16 per cent in 2017.^[2]

Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is cited here. The distinction matters for this title in particular, because the one share figure the monitoring project attaches to it is expressly estimated from another site's data rather than measured, and the project says so.^[1]

Since when has Al-Masry Al-Youm existed?

Media Ownership Monitor Egypt gives the newspaper's founding as 2004, and specifically 7 June 2004.^[1]

The registration of Al-Masry Establishment for Press, Printing and Publishing is a separate date from the newspaper's first issue, and the profile does not give it; neither could be confirmed for this page from a company register.^[1]

Founding, incorporation and the adoption of the present masthead are three separate dates, and only the first is established here. The profile records the Arabic and the registered English forms of the company name as differing, a further reason not to treat the newspaper and the company as one entity with one date.^[1]

The monitoring project itself carries a retrieval date rather than a continuously maintained one, so a founding date taken from it is a statement about what that profile records and not an independently verified fact.^[1]

Why does Al-Masry Al-Youm matter in Egypt's sport?

It is one of the small number of Egyptian dailies that the Media Ownership Monitor project records as privately rather than state owned, which makes its sports pages a different vantage point from the state-owned Cairo houses.^[2]

Its reported daily distribution of 80,000 copies is the only near-circulation figure retrievable for any Egyptian daily examined for this page, and it is an estimate on a stated basis rather than an audited one.^[1]

For a reader checking an Egyptian sports claim, the paper is one of several general dailies whose reporting can be set against the governing bodies' own records — CAF's twelve-title count for Al Ahly to May 2024, five for Zamalek to 2002 — and against the dated league decisions published in the Cairo press.^[3][4][5]

It is a general daily of national circulation with a sports section rather than a specialist sports title, and the monitoring project records the ownership of the Cairo publishing houses that carry the specialist sports papers differently from its own.^[2] See sport in Egypt.