''Defense News'' is a website and newspaper about the politics, business, and technology of
national security
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published by
Sightline Media Group. Founded in 1986, ''Defense News'' says it serves an audience of senior military, government, and industry decision-makers throughout the world.
History
''Defense News'' was founded as a weekly newspaper by
Army Times Publishing Company. ATPCO was sold in 1997 to
Gannett Company (later renamed
TEGNA), which sold it to Los Angeles–based private equity firm
Regent
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in 2016, which renamed it
Sightline Media Group.
Television
''Defense News'' has a weekly television show about international defense and military issues. It first aired March 2, 2008, as ''This Week in Defense News with
Vago Muradian'' on
WUSA 9, a
Washington, D.C.,
CBS affiliate. It later aired on ABC 7 WJLA and the
Armed Forces Network
The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the United States Armed Forces provides to soldiers stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland. AFN comprises two sub ...
.
In April 2017, the show relaunched on
WETA-TV as ''Defense News Weekly''.
See also
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Ian M. Easton
References
External links
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{{GannettGovernment
Military-themed websites
Magazines established in 1986