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Al-Monitor

🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent · al-monitor.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	2012-02-13 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States no source on file
Funding	States its content is funded by reader subscriptions: "The paywall helps ensure our award-winning content remains strong and self-sufficient." Owned by a private media-investment company (see ownership); no state-funding or state-ownership indicator found in any source checked.
In its own words	Describes itself as "The Middle East's leading independent news source since 2012" and states on its About page that it "is highly regarded for its independence, diversity and thorough reporting and analysis," with a stated mission "to foster a deeper understanding of the Middle East through world-class reporting and analysis from and about the region."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Actor from anonymous officials

Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc — in 1 article

Actor named

Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal — in 1 article

Actor named

names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel — in 1 article

Actor named

names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians — in 1 article

From 1566 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 6 misleading9 disputed32 unverified27 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Crest Media LLC	company	100%	yes	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Jamal Daniel

Founder

Founded Al-Monitor in 2012; described in Al-Monitor's own Wikidata entry as the site's founder. Not listed on the outlet's current (2026) leadership/masthead page.

Joyce Karam

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-chief of Al-Monitor as of 2026, named senior news editor in 2022 before assuming the top editorial role; also covers US foreign policy and the Middle East.

Journalists

Amberin Zaman

Chief Correspondent · geopolitics · diplomacy · human rights · Turkey · Kurds

Al-Monitor's chief correspondent, covering the Middle East and North Africa; joined as a full-time reporter in 2018 after 16 years as The Economist's Turkey correspondent.

Ben Caspit

Columnist, Israel Pulse · Israeli politics · national security · defense

Columnist for Al-Monitor's Israel Pulse; also a senior columnist and political analyst for the Israeli outlets Maariv and Walla!, and a presenter on Israeli radio and television.

Adam Lucente

News and Business Correspondent · Iraq · Iran · Gulf · business · China-Middle East

News and business correspondent reporting on Iraqi politics, Iranian foreign policy, US Congress, Gulf investment in sports, China's role in the Middle East, and the Gaza war.

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Diplomatic Correspondent · diplomacy · US foreign policy · sanctions

Diplomatic correspondent based in Washington, DC, covering US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa, including sanctions, foreign aid and negotiations.

Jared Szuba

Defense and Security Correspondent · defense · security · US national security policy

Defense and security correspondent based in Washington, covering the Middle East's place in US national-security and geopolitical strategy.

Jared Szuba

byline · defense · security · US national security policy

Defense and security correspondent based in Washington, covering the Middle East's place in US national-security and geopolitical strategy.

Elizabeth Hagedorn

byline · diplomacy · US foreign policy · sanctions

Diplomatic correspondent based in Washington, DC, covering US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa, including sanctions, foreign aid and negotiations.

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