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Al-Sabaah
🇮🇶IQ ·
newspaper · state-controlled
· alsabaah.iq
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| Founded | 2003-05-17 — first issue of the Al-Sabaah newspaper, published after the fall of the Ba'athist government · source |
| Headquarters | Baghdad, Iraq · source |
| Funding | Published by the Iraqi Media Network (IMN), a government media institution. Per Arabic Wikipedia's IMN article, IMN 'is funded from the state budget, in addition to its own revenues from advertisements and commercial programs,' and operates under Iraq's Law No. 26 of 2015 (amended by Law No. 63 of 2017); that same source describes IMN as 'a government media institution representing governmental discourse and reflecting the orientation of the Iraqi state,' while also stating the 2015 law declares the network's independence from executive/legislative/judicial interference in editorial policy. Both the English Wikipedia article on Al-Sabaah ('an Iraqi state-owned daily newspaper') and the Arabic Wikipedia article on Al-Sabaah (describing it as expressing the government's viewpoint) are consistent with direct state ownership. |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
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Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
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| Iraqi Media Network | state body | not disclosed | yes | charter | — | link |
| Government of Iraq | state body | not disclosed | yes | state funding | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Editor
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What we hold from them
Nothing held from this outlet yet.
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Al-Monitor: Iran hit "more than a dozen" ships. An-Nahar names five Iranian tankers destroyed by US Central Command
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Saudi Arabia says Iran hit the tanker Sidr in Hormuz. AFP, on the same site, calls the attacks unclaimed.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Israel's military says it took the Ali Taher Ridge. The one Lebanese account we hold is two days older and names no ridge.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Haaretz calls Israel's answer a "nothingburger"; Al Jazeera counts four countermeasures
— we have never been able to read this outlet
An-Nahar says more than twenty hit around Nabatieh, IRNA says one killed and two wounded
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Saar says Israel plans "to expel or deport" nobody from Gaza; the Jerusalem Post report we hold does not carry the remark
— we have never been able to read this outlet
France 24 says twelve countries will ban settlement goods; the Jerusalem Post calls it the "UK's Israel boycott"
— we have never been able to read this outlet