Turi Munthe FRSA (born 1976) is an Anglo-French journalist and entrepreneur. ^[1] He is the founder of Demotix, which became the largest network of photojournalists in the world, ^[2] as well as Parlia, an encyclopaedia of opinion. ^[3]

Munthe studied Arabic and History at Oxford, Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and dropped out of a PhD at NYU in Anthropology of Religion ^[4] to start a (failed) biofuels business in Ghana. ^[5]

Munthe began his career with IBTauris, while writing for the British and US press on Middle East politics. ^{[6] [7]} He published The Saddam Hussein Reader, ^[8] before covering the 2nd Gulf War as a freelance journalist. ^[9] He then launched The Beirut Review, a cultural magazine published with the Daily Star under Rami Khouri, ^[10] before returning to London as Head of the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute. ^[11]

In late 2007, he founded Demotix with Jonathan Tepper. ^[12] Demotix built a network of 75,000 contributors around the world and exited to Corbis Corporation in 2012. ^[13] Munthe joined Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic’s North Base Media as a Venture Partner in 2015, ^{[14][ citation needed]} before founding Parlia in 2019.^{[ citation needed]} In 2015, he co-curated the Global Art Forum ^[15] with Sultan al-Qassemi and Shumon Basar. ^[16]

Munthe has lectured on new media all over the world, and has made regular news appearances. ^{[17] [18]} He sits on the boards of openDemocracy, The New Humanitarian ^[19] and The Signals Network, ^[20] and has been a trustee of Index on Censorship and The Bureau for Investigative Journalism. ^[21] He sits on the board of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, the largest newspaper conglomerate in Italy. ^[22]