Egypt postpones retrial of prominent journalist Lina Attalah amid growing press freedom concerns
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Quiet
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 4039 stories, and number 493 of 1727 in News.Why it’s moving
- ScoopBBC News had it 1 hr before anyone else.
1File photo: Lina Attalah
An Egyptian court has postponed the retrial of prominent journalist Lina Attalah until November 18, as her defence seeks to have the presiding judge removed.
In Africanews’s words.2
Background: Lina Attalah
Lina Attalah is an Egyptian media figure and journalist. Attalah is co-founder and chief editor of Mada Masr, an independent online Egyptian newspaper and was previously managing editor of the Egypt Independent prior to its print edition closure in 2013. She is active in the fight against the restriction of honest journalism.3
The story so far
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- Newsrooms and sources
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First with it: BBC News, 1 hr 13 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Reports
- 4
- Over
- 7.3 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 7.3 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:32pm AEDT | BBC News | 1 |
| 12:44am AEDT | Middle East Eye | 2 |
| 6:47am AEDT | Africanews | 3 |
Every report follow-ups included
| Time | Source | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:32pm AEDT | BBC News | 1 |
| 12:44am AEDT | Middle East Eye | 2 |
| 1:43am AEDT | Middle East Eye | 3 |
| 6:47am AEDT | Africanews | 4 |

