The Falls Church News-Press is a weekly newspaper

Weekly newspaper

A weekly newspaper is a general-news publication that is published on newsprint once or twice a week.Such newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and are usually based in less-populous communities or small, defined areas within large cities; often, they may cover a...

 publication based in Falls Church, Virginia

Falls Church, Virginia

The City of Falls Church is an independent city in Virginia, United States, in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The city population was 12,332 in 2010, up from 10,377 in 2000. Taking its name from The Falls Church, an 18th-century Anglican parish, Falls Church gained township status within...

. Founded in 1991 by Owner/Editor-in-Chief Nicholas F. Benton

Nicholas F. Benton

Nicholas F. Benton is the founder, owner, and editor of the Falls Church News-Press, a weekly newspaper circulated in Falls Church, Virginia, and in parts of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Washington D.C....

, the News-Press offers "Local News. Global Perspective."

The News-Press has a weekly circulation of over 30,000, and is delivered weekly in Bailey's Crossroads (22041), Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow

-Fiction:* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, an 1819 short story by Washington Irving* Sleepy Hollow , a 1998 adaptation of Washington Irving's short story* Sleepy Hollow , a 1999 movie by Tim Burton...

 (22042), Pimmit Hills (22043), Lake Barcroft (22044), and City of Falls Church (22046) regions. Washington, DC and Arlington, VA are also areas of distribution.

Columnists for the News-Press include Nicholas F. Benton, Wayne Besen

Wayne Besen

Wayne Besen is an American gay rights advocate. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign and the founder of Truth Wins Out.Besen says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current "ex-gays," and is an outspoken critic of organisations such as Homosexuals Anonymous.- Photos of...

, Mike Hume, and Tom Whipple. Jody Fellows is managing editor.

The newspaper was named CityPaper's

Washington City Paper

The Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Founded in 1981, and published for its first year under the masthead 1981, taking the City Paper name in volume 2, by Russ Smith, it shared ownership with the Chicago Reader from 1982...

"Best Remnant of the Liberal Media" for 2008.

In January 2011, Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist. She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager...

, the former White House correspondent for UPI, began writing a weekly column for the News Press.