News World Communications Inc. is an American international news media

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Background

It was founded in

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, in 1976, by

Unification movement The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists, or "Moonie (nickname), Moonies". It was officially founded on 1 May 1954 unde ...

founder and leader

Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon (; born Yong Myung Moon; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Un ...

. 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 from 1976 until the early 1990s. In October 2009,

Hyun Jin Moon Hyun Jin Preston Moon (born 25 May 1969) is a South Korean social entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the Global Peace Foundation, and later the Family Peace Association. His father, Sun Myung Moon, was the founder of the Unification moveme ...

took over as chairman. News World Communications currently owns

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, '' GolfStyles'' (formerly ''Washington Golf Monthly''), ''

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'' (South Korea), and ''

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'' (Japan). Formerly, it owned ''

The World and I ''World and I'' was a monthly magazine owned by News World Communications, an international news media corporation founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. ''World and I'' started as a full-color glossy magazine in 1986 as a print ...

'', as well as the now defunct ''

Tiempos del Mundo ''Tiempos del Mundo'' was a Spanish-language print newspaper that started publication in Washington, D.C. in 1996 by News World Communications, an international news media corporation owned at the time by the Unification Church of Sun Myung Mo ...

'', ''

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'' (South Africa) and ''Middle East Times'' (Egypt). Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.-based newsmagazine ''

Insight on the News ''Insight on the News'' (also called ''Insight'') was an American conservative print and online news magazine. It was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Unification movement founder Sun Myung Mo ...

''. News World Communications' best-known newspaper was ''

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'', 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 the paper from News World Communications under the company News World Media Development, which now also owns ''The World and I''. The ''Times'' is currently owned by diversified conglomerate owned by the Unification movement, Operations Holdings, through The Washington Times LLC.

References

External links

Who Owns What: News World Communications, Inc.
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Segye Ilbo

Sekai Nippo
{{Unification Church Newspaper companies of the United States Conservative magazines published in the United States Unification Church affiliated organizations Unification Church political involvement Mass media companies established in 1976