News World Communications Inc. is an American international news media

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History

News World Communications was founded in

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, in 1976, by

Unification Church The Unification Church () is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. It was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul, South Korea, as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unificatio ...

founder and leader

Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon (; born Moon Yong-myeong; 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 ...

. Its first two newspapers, ''The News World'', later renamed the '' New York City Tribune'', and the

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''Noticias del Mundo'', were published in New York City from 1976 until the early 1990s. News World Communications currently owns

United Press International United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th ce ...

, '' GolfStyles'', formerly ''Washington Golf Monthly'', ''

Segye Ilbo ''Segye Ilbo'' () is a Korean-language newspaper published in South Korea. The newspaper is owned by News World Communications, which was established by the Unification Church. It is considered right-leaning and conservative Conservati ...

'' (South Korea), and '' Sekai Nippo'' (Japan). It previously owned '' World and I'' magazine, '' Tiempos del Mundo'', ''Zambezi Times'' in

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, and ''Middle East Times'' in

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. Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.–based newsmagazine '' Insight on the News''. News World Communications' best-known newspaper was ''

The Washington Times ''The Washington Times'' is an American Conservatism, conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on Politics of the United States, national politics. Its broadsheet daily edit ...

'', 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''. ''

'', which it founded and owned for several decades, is currently owned by diversified conglomerate owned by the Unification Church, Operations Holdings, through The Washington Times LLC. 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 Church, a ...

took over as chairman.

References

External links

Company profile
at Bloomberg L.P.
UPI official websiteGolfStyles onlineSegye Ilbo

Sekai Nippo
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