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Ammon News
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digital · independent
· ammonnews.net
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State / loyalist
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| Founded | 2006 — launch of the Ammon News website, described by Wikipedia as the first online newspaper in Jordan · source |
| Headquarters | Amman, Mecca Street, Jordan · source |
| In its own words | States in its published professional publishing standards that it commits to 'professional values of honesty, balance, independence and diversity, without commercial or political considerations overriding professional ones' (الالتزام بالقيم المهنية من صدق وتوازن واستقلالية وتنوع دون تغليب للاعتبارات التجارية أو السياسية على المهنية). |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we
have measured from published text, per article, with the quote.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
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| Sameer Al Hyari | person | not disclosed | 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
Founder and owner
Named by Wikipedia as founder (with Bassel Elkour) and owner of Ammon News, launched in 2006 as Jordan's first online newspaper.
Editor-in-chief (per Wikipedia infobox; the article body separately describes hi
Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American.
— read, nothing on this event
Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock.
— read, nothing on this event
The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait.
— read, nothing on this event
Saudi Arabia says Iran hit the tanker Sidr in Hormuz. AFP, on the same site, calls the attacks unclaimed.
— read, nothing on this event
France 24 says twelve countries will ban settlement goods; the Jerusalem Post calls it the "UK's Israel boycott"
— read, nothing on this event