Front page for August 22, 2016
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Operations Holdings (via The Washington Times, LLC) |
Founder(s) | Sun Myung Moon |
Publisher | Larry Beasley |
Editor-in-chief | Christopher Dolan |
General manager | David Dadisman |
News editor | Victor Morton |
Opinion editor | David Keene |
Sports editor | Zac Boyer |
Founded | May 17, 1982 |
Political alignment | Conservative |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 3600 New York Avenue NE Washington, D.C. 20002 |
City | Washington, D.C. |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 59,185 daily (as of November 2013) |
ISSN | 0732-8494 |
OCLC number | 8472624 |
Website | Official website (Mobile) |
The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. It is published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C.. The paper covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on American politics. Its slogan is "America's Newspaper".
One of the first broadsheets in the United States to adopt color photography, its daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and sections of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published. A typical issue includes sections for world and national news, business, politics, editorials and opinion pieces, local news, sports, entertainment, and travel. Periodically, the paper publishes large, 30–40 page special sections devoted to specific policy topics that include reports and commentary from a variety of experts on the subject.
Founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, the Times was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church until 2010, in which Moon and a group of former executives purchased the paper. It is currently owned by diversified conglomerate Operations Holdings, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the church.
The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board. Moon asked Richard L. Rubenstein, a rabbi and college professor who had written on the Holocaust, to serve on the board of directors. The newspaper's first editor and publisher was James R. Whelan.