In April 2013, the editorial team was informed by the management of Al-Masry Media Corporation that their print and online news operation will be shut down.[5] The editorial team decided to put together a closing edition, which would have been published on 25 April, "to explain the conditions under which a strong voice of independent and progressive journalism in Egypt is being terminated".[5] However, the management decided in the last minute to withhold the printing of the final edition, so the editorial team decided to publish it online.[5][6]