Egyptian newspapers need a “Washington Post revolution”

Print press could be dying in Egypt: “The transformation print press in Egypt has undergone in the past few years is too radical to go unnoticed and too ominous to be overlooked,” Sonia Farid writes in Al Arabiya. She notes that Egyptian households have substituted buying around three newspapers each day, “two official and one independent, to not buying any or keeping one official, usually for the obituaries.” Journalist Ahmed El Samani argues that Egyptian newspapers need a “Washington Post revolution” to survive. He says WaPo changed by developing “its website so that it becomes the primary source of information with the majority of journalists working there instead of the paper publication … Some of the content of the electronic newspaper is then chosen to be included in the print issue.”