Al-Masdar Online
Al-Masdar Online is an independent Yemeni news website that grew out of the weekly Al-Masdar newspaper, founded in 2007, with the online edition launched in 2009. Repeatedly targeted by both government and Houthi authorities — its Sanaa offices were raided in 2015 and its editor works from exile — it is regarded as one of Yemen's most balanced news sources.
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Is Al-Masdar Online left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Al-Masdar Online is positioned toward the editorial center of Yemen's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Yemen outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Al-Masdar Online beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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