Joseph Farah
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| Born | Joseph Francis Farah July 6, 1954 Paterson, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable awards | The Washington Times Foundation National Service Award (1996) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Farah |
Joseph Francis Farah (born July 6, 1954) is an American author, journalist and editor-in-chief of the conservative website WorldNetDaily (WND).
Farah was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on July 6, 1954, to parents of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry. His father was a schoolteacher. He graduated from William Paterson University, in Wayne, New Jersey with a B.A. in Communications. He is married to Elizabeth Farah and is a conservative evangelical Christian.
Farah worked for six years as executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. On July 22, 1990, Farah became editor of the Sacramento Union. The paper had been losing up to $3 million annually, and in early 1990 it was purchased from Richard Mellon Scaife by Daniel Benvenuti Jr. and David Kassis. Farah and the paper's owners envisioned the paper as a conservative alternative to the Sacramento Bee. "We just thought the way to go was to be unabashedly conservative in our approach," explained Farah to the Washington Post. Among other things, Farah convinced Rush Limbaugh to write a daily column, which ran on "Page 1."
In 1991, Farah left the Union and co-founded the Western Journalism Center. Farah received the Washington Times Foundation National Service Award in 1996. He currently writes a weekly print column for the Jerusalem Post which is nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate.
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