This is how Ben Hubbard and Anne Barnard of the New York Times measure Arab public opinion

"Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist..." Do we need to know the rest really?  

PS Khashoggi is never identified for the princes he had worked for: from Prince Khalid Al-Faysal, to Prince Turki Al-Faysal, and then to Prince Al-Walid bin Talal. I guess prominence for Barnard and Hubbard means the work for a variety of princes.