Thursday 09/October/2025 – 04:43 PM
An anticipated decision ends the career of Hurriyati magazine, which extended for decades, during which it presented artistic, social, and political files and topics targeting a wide audience. The weekly magazine, which was founded by journalist Samir Rajab, is scheduled to be canceled and merged as a weekly supplement into Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.
My Freedom is one of the most prominent publications of Dar Al Tahrir for Printing and Publishing, one of the national press institutions in Egypt, and the cancellation decision comes within the framework of a plan to reduce expenses and reduce the financial losses suffered by some paper publications.
Canceling Hurrity magazine
This decision comes within a series of measures taken by the authority in recent years, to restructure national press institutions and keep pace with digital transformation, as Half of the World magazine was previously merged with Al-Bayt magazine, and the language of the era was merged with Al-Ahram Al-Iqtisadi.
In July 2021, the National Press Authority had decided to convert the evening publications: Al-Ahram Evening, Evening News, and Evening, issued by the Tahrir House, into fully electronic publications, while preserving all employees’ financial and administrative rights.
A series of merging national releases
Previous merger decisions also included annexing “Al-Rai La’ashab” newspaper to “Al-Jumhuriya” as a weekly supplement, converting “Al-Jumhuriya Book” into a quarterly publication, merging “Al-Massa” with the Al-Jumhuriya electronic portal, in addition to merging Al-Jabriyat Egyptian and Al-Bourjay Dimanche with the French portal of Al-Jamhuriya under unified management.
The merger also included unifying the Dar Al Maaref institutions and the National Distribution Company into one entity, in addition to unifying the editorship of several electronic publications within Al-Ahram and Akhbar Al-Youm institutions, within the framework of a comprehensive digital transformation project in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, with an emphasis on not laying off any employees.
Losses of national press institutions
Most of the merger and cancellation decisions come to keep pace with the digital transformation on the one hand, and to reduce the accumulated financial losses on the other hand, as Engineer Abdel Sadiq Al-Shorbaji, Chairman of the National Press Authority, had confirmed in previous statements that there are continuous attempts to bridge the financing gap between revenues and expenses without affecting the institutions’ assets or disposing of them, adding:
We seek to increase investments in light of the high cost of the journalism industry. Advertisements and revenues have declined significantly, and we are going through an extremely difficult period.
Al-Shorbagy pointed out that the authority is working to diversify sources of income through investment projects in areas such as exhibitions, seminars, and education to compensate for the sharp decline in journalistic revenues.
