The ''Libya Herald'' ( ar, ليبيا هيرلد) is an English-language newspaper based in Tripoli,

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...

, launched on 17 February 2012.

Creation

The ''Libya Herald'' was launched on 17 February 2012, the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Libyan Civil War, and currently publishes news through its website, though plans are in place to launch a print edition in the near future. The Libya Herald was the initiative of Michel Cousins, a British journalist raised in Libya who has worked in the Arab world for much of his career. Cousins co-founded the paper together with Sami Zaptia, a Libyan journalist who worked for the state-owned ''

Tripoli Post The ''Tripoli Post'' was a newspaper that claims to have been founded in 1999 during Muammar Gaddafi's period of rule in Libya. Creation The ''Tripoli Post'' claims to have been founded in 1999. Gaddafi period and 2011 Civil War Sami Zaptia w ...

'' for ten years but resigned upon the outbreak of the Libyan Civil War, frustrated at the

Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

regime's strict censorship.

Editors

Until January 2013, the paper's deputy editor was George Grant, a British journalist who also worked as Libya correspondent for ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

'' newspaper. Grant was subsequently forced to leave Libya following an abduction threat from suspected Islamists in Benghazi following an investigation he was conducting into a death list in the city.

References

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