On 1 December 2011, the chief editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm objected to and ultimately censored a print issue of Egypt Independent, Al-Masry's weekly English-language newspaper supplement that was launched in November 2011. Al Masry Al Youm reported at the time that a source among the flotilla's activists said to the paper that "the ship will reach the port of Alexandria to refuel, in response to the invitation of Al Masry Al Youm, and after that it will proceed to one of the Mediterranean ports, and from there directly to Gaza, challenging all of the threats that Israel has issued." Accusations of self-censorship It turned towards Gaza after publicly announcing that its destination was the port of Alexandria, before being intercepted by Israeli commandos and escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod. The French ship Dignité Al Karama was the only ship in the flotilla that managed to approach Gaza. The paper reported that flotilla activists welcomed the paper's initiative to sail from Egypt. The flotilla's ships were stalled in Greece after Greek authorities refused to let them sail. In July, 2011, Al Masry Al Youm publicized its initiative to host the Freedom Flotilla 2 in Egypt and to have the flotilla's ships sail for Gaza from an Egyptian port. The same year the paper sold 250,000 copies. In 2012, the paper's online version was the 26th most-visited website in Egypt based on the Alexa data. Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work. It has successfully responded to the Egyptian media market as a whole and not a single political party, like many Egyptian opposition papers, and was unafraid to take on hard-hitting topics, like governmental news outlets. As of 2009 it was regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt. After 3 three years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. The 2005 circulation of the daily was 50,000 copies. It has been said that the paper's launch "helped inaugurate a new opening for independent media in Egypt.". It initially circulated primarily amongst Cairo's intellectual elite, providing objective news coverage in the belief that good news would beat sensationalist reporting found in other Egyptian print media.
Until Mohamed Salmawi served as editor-in-chief of the daily when Ali Al Sayed was appointed to the post. Magdi El Galad is one of the former editors-in-chief of the paper. The publisher of the daily is Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication. In 2004, its establishment was finalized, and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of Al Masry Al Youm. The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s.
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