36 Facts About The Washington Times

Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, DC, that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics.

The Washington Times was one of the first American broadsheets to publish its front page in full color.

Washington Times was founded on May 17,1982, by Unification movement leader Sun Myung Moon and owned until 2010 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Moon.

Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification movement which owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

At the time of founding of The Washington Times, Washington had only one major newspaper, The Washington Post.

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Washington Times reporters visited imprisoned South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandela during the 1980s.

At the time, The Washington Times had one-eighth the circulation of the Post and two-thirds of its subscribers subscribed to both papers.

In 2013, The Washington Times partnered with Herring Networks to create a new conservative cable news channel, One America News, which began broadcasting in mid-2013.

In 2013, The Washington Times hired David Keene, the former president of the National Rifle Association and American Conservative Union chairman, to serve as its opinion editor.

On December 31,2009, The Washington Times announced that it would no longer be a full-service newspaper, eliminating its metropolitan-news and sports sections.

Alexander Hunter, designer and editorial illustrator for The Washington Times, has won the 2019 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Thom Loverro, lead sports columnist for The Washington Times, won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Sports Column Writing in 2014.

In 2013, The Washington Times won two Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists for Deadline Reporting and Investigative Reporting.

Guy Taylor and Dan Boylan, reporters for The Washington Times, won an Honorable Mention for the 31st annual Gerald R Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

In 1982, The Washington Times refused to publish film critic Scott Sublett's negative review of the movie Inchon, which was sponsored by the Unification movement.

In 1988, The Washington Times published a misleading story suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis had sought psychiatric help, and included a quote from Dukakis' sister-in-law saying "it is possible" he visited a psychiatrist.

In 2002, The Washington Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association, the largest teachers' union in the United States, of teaching students that the policies of the US government were partly responsible for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

Brendan Nyhan, later a political science professor at the University of Michigan, wrote that The Washington Times story was a "lie" and a "myth".

In 2018, The Washington Times published a commentary piece by retired US Navy admiral James A Lyons which promoted conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich.

Aaron Rich filed a lawsuit against The Washington Times, saying that it acted with "reckless disregard for the truth" and that it did not retract or remove the piece after "receiving notice of the falsity of the statements about Aaron after the publication".

Rich and The Washington Times settled their lawsuit, and the paper issued an "unusually robust" retraction.

On January 6,2021, after violent pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol, The Washington Times published a false story quoting an unidentified retired military officer claiming that the facial recognition system company XRVision had used its technology and identified two members of Antifa amid the mob.

XRVision quickly denied this, sending a cease and desist to The Washington Times, and issued a statement saying that its technology had actually identified two Neo-Nazis and a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory and that it had not done any detection work for a retired military officer authorized to share that information.

Washington Times has at least twice published articles, one written by the ambassador of Turkey to the US and one by an attorney and lobbyist for the Turkish government, that deny the Armenian genocide.

The Washington Times reprinted a column by Steve Milloy criticizing research of climate change in the Arctic without disclosing Milloy's financial ties to the fossil fuel industry.

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In 2010, the The Washington Times published an article claiming that February 2010 snow storms "Undermin[e] The Case For Global Warming One Flake At A Time".

The The Washington Times later said that a NASA scientist claimed that global warming was on a "hiatus" and that NASA had found evidence of global cooling; Rebecca Leber of The New Republic said that the NASA scientist in question said the opposite of what the The Washington Times claimed.

In 1993, The Washington Times published articles purporting to debunk climate change.

In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described The Washington Times as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change.

In 1995, The Washington Times published a column by Fred Singer, who is known for promoting views contrary to mainstream science on a number of issues, where Singer referred to the science on the adverse health impact of second-hand smoke as the "second-hand smoke scare" and accused the Environmental Protection Agency of distorting data when it classified second-hand smoke as harmful.

In January 2020, The Washington Times published two widely shared articles about the COVID-19 pandemic that suggested that the virus was created by the government of the People's Republic of China as a biological weapon.

Under Pruden's editorship, The Washington Times regularly printed excerpts from racist hard-right publications including VDARE and American Renaissance, and from Bill White, leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party, in its Culture Briefs section.

Washington Times employed Samuel T Francis, a white nationalist, as a columnist and editor, beginning in 1991 after he was chosen by Pat Buchanan to take over his column.

In June 1995, editor-in-chief Wesley Pruden "had cut back on Francis' column" after The Washington Times ran his essay criticizing the Southern Baptist Convention for its approval of a resolution which apologized for slavery.

Southern Poverty Law Center noted that The Washington Times had, by 2005, published at least 35 articles by Marian Kester Coombs, who was married to managing editor Francis Coombs.

When interviewed by the New York The Washington Times, Kuhner refused to name the person said to be the reporter's source.