{{Short description|Lebanese news website}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox website | name = NOW News | logo = NOW News Logo.png | logocaption = | screenshot = | collapsible = no | caption = | url = https://nowlebanon.com/ | commercial = | type = News, features, analysis, and much more | registration = | language = English and Arabic | num_users = | content_license = | owner = M Publishing SAL | author = | launch_date = {{start date and age|2012}} }}
'''''NOW News'''''<ref name="LebWeb">{{cite web|url=http://www.lebweb.com/site/lebanon-nowlebanon-97887|title=NOW News, Lebanon |work=LebWeb|access-date=7 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="onlinenewspapers">{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/lebanon.htm|title=Lebanese Newspapers|publisher=Online Newspapers|access-date=7 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="sahafa">{{cite web|url=http://www.sahafa.com/newspapers-and-magazines/lebanon/now-lebanon|title=newspapers and magazines in Lebanon|work=Sahafa|access-date=7 June 2013|archive-date=11 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511003831/http://www.sahafa.com/newspapers-and-magazines/lebanon/now-lebanon|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Prevention Web">{{cite web |url=http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/contacts/v.php?id=9490 |title=NOW News |publisher=PreventionWeb |access-date=25 June 2013 |archive-date=14 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214112622/http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/contacts/v.php?id=9490 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="beirut">{{cite web|url=http://www.beirut.com/l/3191|title=NOW Lebanon|work=Beirut|access-date=25 June 2013|archive-date=23 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123093543/http://www.beirut.com/l/3191|url-status=dead}}</ref> (sometimes abbreviated '''NOW''', formerly '''''NOW Lebanon''''') is a Beirut-based Lebanese news website focused on the Middle East founded in late 2012 and published in both English and Arabic by M Publishing SAL.<ref name=NOWLebanon>{{cite web|title=NOW welcome screen|url=https://mmedia.me/pages/welcomescreen.aspx|access-date=7 June 2013|archive-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121060835/http://mmedia.me/Pages/WelcomeScreen.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The site offers reports, news, features, and analysis on Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. The website offers minute-by-minute news updates as well as a special section and live blog on the civil war in Syria.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
== History == {{more citations needed section|date=May 2018}} On 14 March 2005 an estimated 1 million Lebanese took to the streets concentrated in Martyrs' Square, Beirut primarily to protest Syrian military occupation of Lebanon and Syrian intelligence and political domination of Lebanon since 1976. The mass mobilization was triggered by widespread unrest following accusations of Syrian involvement in the 14 February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
The New Opinion Workshop (NOW) was created to provide news reports and opinion pieces as well as a digest of relevant news and opinion from a variety of media outlets. It aims to enable Lebanese citizens and the Lebanese diaspora to stay informed on a wide range of issues.
NOW News is the redesigned website that was known as "NOW Lebanon".<ref name=NOWLebanon/> The change came in late 2012 as the site's publisher decided to widen the scope of coverage to include the wider Middle East region.
NOW News has a large online readership mainly from the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia.
Due to a financial crisis, the NOW website was taken down in December 2017.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
On 15 June 2021, NOW Lebanon was officially put back online, but the old archives were lost due to the destruction of the main servers after the 2020 explosion.
== Contributors == Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese author and commentator.
Hussein Ibish,<ref name="Hussein Ibish ATFP">[http://www.americantaskforce.org/staff/hussein_ibish "Hussein Ibish on American Task Force on Palestine"]</ref> a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine.
Michael Weiss,<ref name="Michael Weiss HJS">[http://henryjacksonsociety.org/author/michael-weiss/ "Michael Weiss on Henry Jackson Society"]</ref> former director of communications at the Henry Jackson Society.
Tony Badran,<ref name="Tony Badran defenddemocracy">[http://www.defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/badran-tony/ "Tony Badran on Foundation for Defense of Democracies"]</ref> a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Michael Young,<ref name="Michael Young Daily star">{{cite news |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Michael-Young.ashx#axzz21RLM4HND |title=Michael Young/ Columnists Index |work=The Daily Star (Lebanon) |access-date=7 June 2013 |archive-date=7 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607072135/http://dailystar.com.lb/Michael-Young.ashx#axzz21RLM4HND |url-status=dead }}</ref> opinion-page editor of ''The Daily Star''.
== Staff == '''Publisher''' :M Publishing, Sal '''Managing Editor''' :Hanin Ghaddar (English) :Alex Rowell (English) :Ana Maria Luca (English) '''Production Editors''' :Ranya Radwan (English) :Saleh Hodeifi (Arabic) '''News Desk Editors''' :Albin Szakola (English) :Liliana Mihaila (English) '''Blog Editor''' :Liliana Mihaila (English) '''Reporters''' :Alex Rowell :Ana Maria Luca :Myra Abdallah :Amin Nasr '''Fixer''' :Myra Abdallah (English) :Amin Nasr (English)
==See also== *The Daily Star (Lebanon)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/ English Site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104003315/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en |date=4 November 2013 }} * [https://now.mmedia.me/lb/ar/ Arabic Site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009070519/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/ar |date=9 October 2013 }}
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