The Mint Press News article about the FSA fighters who accidentally
spilled some sarin gas in a tunnel while juggling the bottles during a
carefree moment intrigued me. Where did this new online periodical come
from? Assuming that the 18 people on staff were not writing, editing,
etc. for free, that’s a pretty piece of change to keep going. A cursory
search on the paper revealed an interesting article that appeared in the
January 18, 2012 Minnesota Post on “Who is MintPress and why are they
doing all this hiring?” Written by David Brauer, it profiled a
24-year-old Palestinian-American woman named Mnar A. Muhawesh’s who
founded Mint Press News. Ordinarily such a young person would not have
the funds for such a start-up unless they were world-class hustlers like
Bhaskar Sunkara but Ms. Muhawesh had help:
Muhawesh has investors, “retired businesspeople” whom she will not name
— unfortunate for a journalism operation fighting alongside people
seeking transparency. (The site’s “About Us” page is similarly skinny.)
Her father-in-law Odeh A. Muhawesh — an adjunct St. Thomas theology
professor, and veteran Twin Cities businessman — is a key adviser.
full: http://louisproyect.org/2013/09/03/the-provenance-of-mint-press-news/
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