News World Communications
News World Communications Inc. is an international news media corporation.
It was founded in New York City, in 1976, by Unification movement founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. Its first two newspapers, The News World and the Spanish-language Noticias del Mundo, were published in New York from 1976 until the early 1990s. In October 2009, Hyun Jin Moon took over as chairman.
News World Communications currently owns United Press International, GolfStyles , Segye Ilbo, and Sekai Nippo. Formerly, it owned The World and I, as well as the now defunct Tiempos del Mundo, Zambezi Times and Middle East Times.
Until 2008, it published the Washington D.C.-based newsmagazine Insight on the News. News World Communications' best-known newspaper was The Washington Times, 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 Operations Holdings through The Washington Times LLC.
