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News World Communications
Company typeNews media
Founded1976;48 years ago(1976)inNew York City,U.S.
FounderSun Myung Moon
Area served
Internationally
Products
Subsidiaries

News World Communications Inc.is an American international news mediacorporation.[1]

History[edit]

News World Communications was founded inNew York City,in 1976, byUnification Churchfounder and leaderSun Myung Moon.Its first two newspapers,The News World,later renamed theNew York City Tribune,and theSpanish-languageNoticias del Mundo,were published in New York City from 1976 until the early 1990s.[2][3]

News World Communications currently ownsUnited Press International,GolfStyles,formerlyWashington Golf Monthly,Segye Ilbo(South Korea), andSekai Nippo(Japan). It previously ownedWorld and Imagazine,Tiempos del Mundo,Zambezi TimesinSouth Africa,andMiddle East TimesinEgypt.[4]

Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.-based newsmagazineInsight on the News.[1]News World Communications' best-known newspaper wasThe Washington Times,which the company owned from the paper's founding in 1982 until 2010, when Sun Myung Moon and a group of formerTimeseditors purchased it from News World Communications under the company News World Media Development, which now also ownsThe World and I.[5]

The Washington Times,which it founded and owned for several decades, is currently owned by diversified conglomerate owned by the Unification Church, Operations Holdings,[6][7]through The Washington Times LLC.

In October 2009,Hyun Jin Moontook over as chairman.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ab"Who Owns What: News World Communications".The Columbia Journalism Review.November 24, 2003. Archived fromthe originalon July 28, 2012.RetrievedFebruary 2,2008.
  2. ^"AROUND THE NATION; Sun Myung Moon Paper Appears in Washington".The New York Times.May 18, 1982.RetrievedJanuary 22,2018.
  3. ^"Global Peace Festival stirs Japan".United Press International.November 17, 2008.Archivedfrom the original on February 26, 2010.RetrievedNovember 27,2008.
  4. ^Yahoo! Finance profileArchivedJuly 21, 2013, at theWayback Machine.yahoo.Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  5. ^Shapira, Ian (November 3, 2010). "Moon group buys back Washington Times".Washington Post.p. C1.
  6. ^"The Washington Times reports first profitable month".Associated Press News.October 15, 2015.Archivedfrom the original on March 7, 2016.RetrievedFebruary 7,2016.
  7. ^"Operations Holdings Inc. – About Us".Operations Holdings.Archivedfrom the original on July 18, 2018.RetrievedMarch 19,2018.
  8. ^Duin, Julia (October 14, 2009)."Rev. Sun Myung Moon passes the torch".The Washington Times.Archivedfrom the original on April 28, 2016.RetrievedFebruary 15,2016.

External links[edit]

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