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Largest independent Middle East news site Al Bawaba joins media blockchain consortium PUBLISHalliance

Tue, 17 Sep 2019, 08:27 am UTC

PUBLISHalliance, a media blockchain consortium initiated by PUBLISH Inc., has announced the addition Al Bawaba to its consortium.

Founded in 2018, PUBLISH is a provider of blockchain solutions for media businesses. It has launched PUBLISHprotocol – an EOS blockchain-based media protocol and platform that aims to incentivize a global cooperation of readers, writers, and editors to join publishers in proliferating good journalism. Last month, it rolled out an ‘onchain’ news article notarization service in beta.

PUBLISHalliance is tasked with the development and proliferation of PUBLISHprotocol and already counts nearly 60 media and corporations as its members, attracting over 1 billion views per month. Members include Konstellation, Korea Internet Newspaper Association (KINA), Ascent Networks, DIGITONE KOREA, and many others.

Al Bawaba is among one of the latest organizations to join the cohort.

Al Bawaba

Founded in 2000, Al Bawaba bills itself as the largest independent producer and distributor of content in the Middle East, with a full-time staff of journalists and editors covering the Middle East and North Africa region's events and news. It is considered one of the oldest and most pioneering online media websites in the Middle East and North Africa region.

The Al Bawaba network consists of several web portals and media platforms, namely its flagship media outlet Al Bawaba News and content marketplace SyndiGate.

SyndiGate is a digital content syndication service provided by Al Bawaba Middle East Limited and SyndiGate FZ-LLC. SyndiGate licenses digital content from over 1,100 publishers and creators of text, photo, video, music, games, and mobile applications.

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