State-owned, sometimes critical estimate · not a score

Gulf News

🇦🇪AE · newspaper · independent · gulfnews.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1978-09-30 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Dubai, United Arab Emirates no source on file
Funding	Privately owned by Al Nisr Publishing, a subsidiary of the Al Tayer Group; no state ownership or state funding found in sources reviewed.
Reach	Self-described by its publisher (GN Media) as 'the biggest selling English newspaper in the UAE' and operator of 'the most visited news website in the UAE, gulfnews.com.'
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Headline framing

the incident is folded into a named war and led by the oil price; one tanker, not two — in 1 article

Headline framing

incident placed inside a named 'US-Iran war' and led by the oil price — in 1 article

How hard the claim is stated

The denial that it is a war is labelled a claim, while the fighting itself is downgraded to a conflict — in 1 article

How hard the claim is stated

none — assertion carried as fact — in 1 article

From 6602 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 misleading3 disputed6 unverified1 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
Al Nisr Publishing	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Al Tayer Group	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Obaid Humaid Al Tayer	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link
Abdullah Al Rostamani (deceased 2006; seat now held by a family nominee)	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link
Juma Al Majid	person	not disclosed	—	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

Mark Thompson

Editor-in-Chief

Media executive; former BBC Director-General (2004-2012) and President/CEO of The New York Times Company (2012-2020); became Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide in 2023.

Vijay Vaghela

Chief Executive Officer

CEO of GN Media, the publisher of Gulf News.

Journalists

Jay Hilotin

Senior Assistant Editor · world · international affairs

Senior Assistant Editor covering international/geopolitical news for Gulf News, with a staff author page listing bylined coverage.

Balaram Menon

Senior Web Editor · current affairs · politics · cricket · entertainment

Senior Web Editor and core member of the gulfnews.com digital team since 2004.

Surabhi Vasundharadevi

Social Media Reporter · trending news · automotive · technology

Social Media Reporter at Gulf News covering trending stories, automotive and technology content.

Devadasan K P

Chief Visual Editor · visual journalism · photojournalism

Chief Visual Editor leading Gulf News's Visual desk; over 27 years of photojournalism experience including coverage of the 2004 tsunami and 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Jay Hilotin

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Senior Assistant Editor covering international/geopolitical news for Gulf News, with a staff author page listing bylined coverage.

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