An investment management professional with more than three decades of experience, Jamal Daniel serves as the Chairman of Crest Investment Company in Houston, Texas. In 2012, Jamal Daniel founded the American news website Al-Monitor, which publishes articles from Middle Eastern perspectives. Al-Monitor is a 2014 recipient of the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Free Media Pioneer Award. The IPI praised the news outlet for its “unrivalled reporting and analysis...in times of change and upheaval.”
Established by the IPI in 1996, the Free Media Pioneer Award celebrates news organizations that work tirelessly toward the free and independent distribution of news and information. The award places an emphasis on access and quality.
The institute distributes the award on an annual basis at the IPI World Congress. The 2017 event is scheduled to take place on May 18-20 in Hamburg, Germany. In addition to Al-Monitor, past winners have included Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Novaya Gazeta in Russia, and Radio Free Sarawak in Malaysia.
