The Washington Times

The Washington Times
Reliable Reporting. The Right Opinion
Front page for August 22, 2016
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Operations Holdings (via The Washington Times, LLC)
Founder(s)Sun Myung Moon
PublisherLarry Beasley
Editor-in-chiefChristopher Dolan
General managerDavid Dadisman[1]
News editorVictor Morton
Managing editor, designCathy Gainor
Opinion editorCharles Hurt
Sports editorDavid Eldridge
FoundedMay 17, 1982 (1982-05-17)
Political alignmentConservative
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters3600 New York Avenue NE
Washington, D.C., U.S.
CityWashington, D.C., U.S.
CountryUnited States
Circulation52,059 daily (as of 2019)[2]
ISSN0732-8494
OCLC number8472624
Websitewww.washingtontimes.com Edit this at Wikidata

The Washington Times is an American conservative[3][4][5][6] daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout Washington, D.C. and the greater Washington metropolitan area, including suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. It also publishes a subscription-based weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience.[7] The Washington Times was one of the first American broadsheets to publish its front page in full color.[8]

The first edition of The Washington Times was published on May 17, 1982. The newspaper was founded by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, and it was owned until 2010 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Moon. It is currently owned by Operations Holdings, which is a part of the Unification Church movement.[9][10]

The Washington Times has been known for its conservative political stance,[3][4][5][6] supporting the policies of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.[11][12] Reagan was a daily reader of The Washington Times.[13]

The newspaper has published columns contradicting scientific consensus on multiple environmental and health issues.[14][15][16][17][18][19] It has drawn controversy by publishing conspiracy theories about U.S. president Barack Obama[20][21] and supporting neo-conservative historical revisionism.[22]

In 2008, the consumer research firm MRI-Simmons ranked The Washington Times the fifth-most trusted newspaper in the nation among consumers, and the tenth-most trusted media outlet among all media organizations, including newspapers, online media, radio, and television.[23]

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  2. ^ "District of Columbia Newspaper Circulation" (PDF). ANR. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Glaberson, William (June 27, 1994). "Conservative Daily Tries to Expand National Niche". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. Retrieved January 30, 2022. The Washington Times, the conservative daily that is linked to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church
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  7. ^ "Subscribe: National Weekly – Washington Times". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference '70s 146 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "The Washington Times reports first profitable month". Associated Press. October 15, 2015. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  10. ^ "Operations Holdings Inc. – About Us". Operations Holdings. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  11. ^ Goodman, Walter (January 21, 1992). "Review/Television; Sun Myung Moon Changes Robes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019.
  12. ^ Boot, Max (2018). "The Cost of Capitulation". The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. Liveright Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 9781631495670. LCCN 2018036979.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Behind the Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Beilinson, Jerry (April 29, 2014). "Playing Climate-Change Telephone". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on July 20, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  15. ^ "Analysis of "Deceptive temperature record claims"". Climate Feedback. August 28, 2015. Archived from the original on April 8, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  16. ^ Hiltzik, Michael (December 4, 2015). "The attack on climate change scientists continues in Washington". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 24, 2016.
  17. ^ Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. (2010). "Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole". Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Bloomsbury Press. pp. 130–135. ISBN 9781608192939. LCCN 2009043183. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  18. ^ Singer, Fred (1995). "Anthology of 1995's Environmental Myths". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018 – via the Independent Institute.
  19. ^ Powell, James Lawrence (2011). "Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers". The Inquisition of Climate Science. Columbia University Press. pp. 57, 198. ISBN 9780231527842. LCCN 2011018611. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
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  21. ^ Blake, Mariah (February 11, 2013). "The Washington Times takes a giant step—backwards". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on April 28, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  22. ^ Beirich, Heidi; Moser, Bob (August 15, 2003). "The Washington Times Pushes Extremist, Neo-Confederate Ideas". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  23. ^ "About", The Washington Times, retrieved March 5, 2024

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