News World Communications
{{short description|U.S.-based news company founded by Sun Myung Moon}}
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1976}} in New York City, U.S.
| founder = Sun Myung Moon
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| area_served = Internationally
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- New York City Tribune
- Noticias del Mundo}}
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News World Communications Inc. is an American international news media corporation.{{cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=newsworld|title=Who Owns What: News World Communications|access-date=2008-02-02|date=2003-11-24|work=The Columbia Journalism Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728094939/http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=newsworld|archive-date=2012-07-28|url-status=dead}}
History
News World Communications was founded in New York City, in 1976, by Unification Church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. Its first two newspapers, The News World, later renamed the New York City Tribune, and the Spanish-language Noticias del Mundo, were published in New York City from 1976 until the early 1990s.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E5DA1238F93BA25756C0A964948260|title=AROUND THE NATION; Sun Myung Moon Paper Appears in Washington|work=The New York Times|date=May 18, 1982 |access-date=January 22, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.upiasia.com/Society_Culture/2008/11/17/global_peace_festival_stirs_japan/1944|title=Global Peace Festival stirs Japan|agency=United Press International|date=November 17, 2008|access-date=November 27, 2008|archive-date=February 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226095259/http://www.upiasia.com/Society_Culture/2008/11/17/global_peace_festival_stirs_japan/1944|url-status=live}}
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.[http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/54/54437.html Yahoo! Finance profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721211034/http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/54/54437.html |date=July 21, 2013 }}. yahoo.com. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.–based newsmagazine Insight on the News. 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.{{cite news|title=Moon group buys back Washington Times|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 3, 2010|page=C1|first=Ian|last=Shapira}}
The Washington Times, which it founded and owned for several decades, is currently owned by diversified conglomerate owned by the Unification Church, Operations Holdings,{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/1d470c008efe41e2bd0777173c246f36/washington-times-reports-first-profitable-month|title=The Washington Times reports first profitable month|work=Associated Press News|date=October 15, 2015|access-date=February 7, 2016|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307164110/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1d470c008efe41e2bd0777173c246f36/washington-times-reports-first-profitable-month|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://operationsholdings.com/about-us/|title=Operations Holdings Inc. – About Us|publisher=Operations Holdings|access-date=March 19, 2018|archive-date=July 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718205913/http://www.operationsholdings.com/about-us/|url-status=live}} through The Washington Times LLC.
In October 2009, Hyun Jin Moon took over as chairman.{{Cite web|last=Duin|first=Julia|date=October 14, 2009|title=Rev. Sun Myung Moon passes the torch|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/14/rev-sun-myung-moon-passes-the-torch/?page=all|website=The Washington Times|access-date=2016-02-15|archive-date=April 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428100925/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/14/rev-sun-myung-moon-passes-the-torch/?page=all|url-status=live}}
References
External links
- [https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/NWCG:US Company profile] at Bloomberg L.P.
- [https://www.upi.com/ UPI official website]
- [http://www.golfstylesonline.com/ GolfStyles online]
- [http://www.segye.com/Articles/Main.asp Segye Ilbo] {{in lang|ko}}
- [http://www.worldtimes.co.jp/ Sekai Nippo] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Conservative magazines published in the United States
Category:Mass media companies established in 1976
Category:Newspaper companies of the United States