News World Communications

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

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

History

News World Communications was founded in

Spanish-language Noticias del Mundo, were published in New York City from 1976 until the early 1990s.[2][3]

News World Communications currently owns United Press International, GolfStyles, formerly Washington Golf Monthly, Segye Ilbo (South Korea), and Sekai Nippo (Japan). It previously owned World and I magazine, Tiempos del Mundo, Zambezi Times in South Africa, and Middle East Times in Egypt.[4]

Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.-based newsmagazine Insight on the News.[1] News World Communications' best-known newspaper was The Washington Times, which the company owned from the paper's founding in 1982 until 2010, when Sun Myung Moon and a group of former Times editors purchased it from News World Communications under the company News World Media Development, which now also owns The 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 Moon took over as chairman.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Who Owns What: News World Communications". The Columbia Journalism Review. November 24, 2003. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2008.
  2. ^ "AROUND THE NATION; Sun Myung Moon Paper Appears in Washington". The New York Times. May 18, 1982. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  3. ^ "Global Peace Festival stirs Japan". United Press International. November 17, 2008.
  4. ^ Yahoo! Finance profile. yahoo.com. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Shapira, Ian (November 3, 2010). "Moon group buys back Washington Times". Washington Post. p. C1.
  6. Associated Press News
    . October 15, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  7. ^ "Operations Holdings Inc. – About Us". Operations Holdings. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  8. ^ Duin, Julia (October 14, 2009). "Rev. Sun Myung Moon passes the torch". The Washington Times. Retrieved February 15, 2016.

External links

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