The Jordan Times
{{Short description|Newspaper in Jordan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Jordan Times
| native_name =
| image = The Jordan Times.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| caption = The front page of The Jordan Times on Sunday 31 October 2010
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owner = Jordan Press Foundation
| headquarters = Amman
| editor = Mohammad Ghazal
| publisher = Jordan Press Foundation
| sister newspapers = Al Ra'i
| ISSN =
| OCLC = 20791953
| website = {{URL |https://www.jordantimes.com/}}
| circulation =
| language = English
}}
The Jordan Times is an English-language daily newspaper based in Amman, Jordan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/05/world-news-guide-middle-east|title=World news guide: Middle East|author=Guardian Staff|date=5 February 2002|website=The Guardian}}
History
Established in 1975, The Jordan Times is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, a shareholding company which also runs the Arabic-language daily Al Ra'i, the kingdom's best-selling newspaper.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
The Jordan Press Foundation has been majority government-owned since its inception, but it is unclear how much the government's stake has fallen since 2000, when a plan to sell some of the Foundation's shares was announced. The Jordan Times maintains editorial independence from its sister daily Al Ra'i.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
Content and profile
The newspaper includes two main sections:
- News: Covers local, regional, and world news, and includes subsections on business and sports.
- Opinions: Features opinion commentary and analysis by Jordanian, Arab, and international writers.
The paper's website was the 31st most visited website in the Arab world in 2013.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
Alumni
Notable journalists who have worked at The Jordan Times include:
- Rami George Khouri, journalist and commentator on the Middle East. Former editor-in-chief.
- Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor reporter kidnapped in Iraq. Former reporter.
- Marwan Muasher, former minister of information. Former editor-in-chief.{{cite journal|last=Najjar|first=Orayb Aref|title=The Ebb and Flow of the Liberalization of the Jordanian Press: 1985−1997|journal=Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly|year=1998|volume=75|issue=127|pages=127–142|doi=10.1177/107769909807500113|s2cid=144187763 }}
- George Hawatmeh, founder of the Arab Media Institute. Former editor-in-chief.
- Ayman Safadi, Jordan's foreign minister. Former deputy prime minister and editor-in-chief.
From the 1980s to 2011 veteran journalist Randa Habib had a weekly column in The Times which was stopped by the paper's management.{{cite web|title=In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist are Realized|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102678/In-Jordan-Some-Threats-Against-a-Foreign-Journalist-Are-Realized.aspx|work=Nieman Reports|access-date=21 September 2013|author=Randa Habib|date=Fall 2011|archive-date=22 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922172942/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102678/In-Jordan-Some-Threats-Against-a-Foreign-Journalist-Are-Realized.aspx|url-status=live}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.jordantimes.com/ The Jordan Times website]
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Category:1976 establishments in Jordan
Category:Newspapers established in 1976
Category:English-language newspapers published in Arab countries