Middle East Eye

The Middle East Eye (MEE) is an online news portal covering events in the Middle East and which has been cited by major media publications. The MEE website describes the organization as an independently funded online news organization founded in February 2014 which aims to be the primary portal of Middle East news.[1] The MEE editor is David Hearst, the former chief foreign leader writer for the British daily The Guardian.[2] MEE is wholly owned by M.E.E. Ltd, a UK company that employs about 20 full-time staff in its London offices and also has a network of freelance journalists. The sole director of M.E.E. Ltd is Jamal Bassasso who was a former director of planning and human resources at Al Jazeera.[3] David Hearst has said that his staff came from varied backgrounds, saying that “some were activists but this doesn't effect their professional journalism”. Hearst argues that MEE is independent and is not linked to any government, ideology or movement.

Middle East Eye has been used as a reference in several well known news websites such as BBC News,[4] The Huffington Post,[5] The Guardian[6] and The New York Times.[7]

Columnists

Peter Oborne, associate editor of The Spectator and former chief political columnist at The Daily Telegraph; Australian American author, critic of the Christian Right and New Atheists, CJ Werleman;[8] Basheer Nafi, Senior Research Fellow at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies; American lawyer and professor Faisal Kutty; Award-winning British investigative journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed; Israeli academic and historian Ilan Pappe; and former award-winning BBC journalist Bill Law.

References

  1. ↑ About Middle East Eye Middle East Eye. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. ↑ David Hearst. Articles. Middle East Eye. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Muslim Brotherhood, its UK connections and media attacks on the UAE revealed". The National. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Saudi Arabia: Lawyers jailed for judiciary criticism". BBC News. 28 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Brits' Disappearance Casts Shadow Over Qatari World Cup Efforts and Shines Light on UAE". The Huffington Post. 5 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Habiba Hamid (8 August 2014). "Why are the Arab Gulf countries silent on Gaza?". The Guardian.
  7. ↑ Rudoren, Jodi; Kershner, Isabel (8 August 2014). "New Fighting a Bid for Leverage as a Gaza Cease-Fire Expires". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ http://thedailybanter.com/2014/10/c-j-werlemans-pitiful-dishonesty-goes-beyond-plagiarism-allegations/

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