{{Short description|Online newspaper based in Libya}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Libya Observer | logo = | image = | caption = | type = Daily | format = Online newspaper | owners = | founder = | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = Abdullah Ibrahim<ref name="LibObs_chiefeditor" /> | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = {{Start date|2015|07|df=yes}} | political_position = | language = English, Arabic | ceased_publication = | headquarters = Tripoli, Libya<ref name="LibObs_chiefeditor" /> | circulation = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | website = {{URL|https://libyaobserver.ly}}, {{URL|https://ar.libyaobserver.ly}} }}
'''''The Libya Observer''''' ({{langx|ar|ليبيا أوبزرفر}}) is an English and Arabic online newspaper based in Tripoli, Libya,<ref name="LibObs_chiefeditor" /> created in 2015.<ref name="LibObs_AboutUs" />
==History== ''The Libya Observer'' claims to have evolved from online social media news articles, first published in April 2014, into a more conventional online newspaper in July 2015.<ref name="LibObs_AboutUs" /> The chief editor is Abdullah Ibrahim.<ref name="LibObs_chiefeditor" />
==Influence== Freedom House used articles by ''Libya Observer'' as a major source of information on Libyan Internet freedom in 2018.<ref name="FreedomHouse" />
==See also== * List of newspapers in Libya
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="LibObs_chiefeditor">{{cite news | last1 = Langendorf | first1 =Manuel | title = Can elections save Libya? | newspaper = The World Weekly | date = 31 May 2018 | url = https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/16112/can-elections-save-libya- | access-date = 12 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190412230442/https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/16112/can-elections-save-libya- |archive-date= 12 April 2019 |url-status=usurped}} {{web archive|url=https://archive.today/20210111183021/https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/16112/can-elections-save-libya-|date=11 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="FreedomHouse">{{cite web | title = Freedom on the Net 2018 — Libya — partly free | website = Freedom House | year = 2018 | url = https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2018/libya | access-date = 13 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190412230440/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2018/libya |archive-date= 12 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="LibObs_AboutUs">{{cite web | title = About Us | newspaper = The Libya Observer | year = 2019 | url = https://www.libyaobserver.ly/about-us | access-date = 13 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190408002953/https://www.libyaobserver.ly/about-us |archive-date= 8 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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