[5][9] Until 3 May 2014 Mohamed Salmawi served as editor-in-chief of the daily when Ali Al Sayed was appointed to the post.

Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work.

[13] In 2012, the paper's online version was the 26th most-visited website in Egypt based on the Alexa data.

The second issue of Egypt Independent was to carry an opinion piece by Robert Springborg, a political scientist and expert on Egyptian civil-military relations, that was critical of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that had ruled Egypt since the February, 2011 departure of former president Husni Mubarak.

Springborg and the Egypt Independent staff collaborated to alter the offending sections in the opinion piece, however the second issue of the supplement was nevertheless prevented from being published.

Professor Springborg was himself accused of being a "conspirator against Egypt’s stability" on 7 December 2011 Arabic-language edition of Al-Masry al-Youm.

[18][19] In June 2013, former journalists of Egypt Independent founded an online newspaper entitled Mada Masr.