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MintPress News is a news website founded and edited by Mnar Muhawesh which was launched in January 2012.[1] It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues.
MintPress News was founded by Mnar Muhawesh, a broadcast journalism graduate of St. Cloud State University. Muhawesh began her career as an intern at Minnesota television station KARE and as a freelance journalist.[2] After posting her own work on a blog, in 2011 she decided to launch her own news site.[3] Muhawesh said she believed “our media has failed us very miserably,” and spoke of her aspirations for MintPress, citing uninformed public debates around issues like Iran’s nuclear capabilities, or intervention in Syria. “We are in a crucial time in American history where most Americans don’t know what’s going on in the world around them.”[1] BuzzFeed News in 2013 described the site as having “an agenda that lines up, from its sympathy with the Syrian regime to its hostility to Sunni Saudi Arabia, with that of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”[4]
MintPress News said it was a for-profit “regular news organization,” with an initial business plan where advertising revenues would exceed costs after three years.[2] MintPress’s anonymous investors were originally intended to fund MintPress operations until 2015.[1] However, in a 2013 email to BuzzFeed, Muhawesh said she restructured the business plan: “MintPress was originally funded by angel investors when I was first putting the company together over a year ago, but that route fell through last year as I restructured the business plan.” She added: “I am the sole investor of MintPress.”[4]
By 2016, MintPress News had begun reprinting copy from RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik.
The mystery of MintPress News
By Brian Lambert | 11/11/2015
Several months ago, I was tipped to a skirmish on the edges of the local media universe. A liberal activist in St. Louis Park named Terry Burke, who’s associated with a group known as Minnesota Committee in Solidarity with the Syrian People, was pointing fingers at an obscure, web-only “news organization” called MintPress, accusing it of a persistent anti-Israel, pro-Syrian-dictator Bashar al Assad slant to its coverage, and challenging someone to find out where the organization’s money was coming from.
But from the start there was a clear focus on Israel and ways that “American imperialism” was abetting the humiliation and slaughter of innocent Arabs. (Ms. Muhawesh and her family are Palestinian.)