News World Communications, Inc., is an international news media

News media

The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...

 corporation

Corporation

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. It was founded in New York City

New York City

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, in 1976, by Unification Church

Unification Church

The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church...

 founder and leader, Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects...

. Its first two newspapers, The News World (later renamed the New York City Tribune) and the Spanish-language Noticias del Mundo, were published in New York from 1976 until the early 1990s. In 1982 the New York Times described News World as "the newspaper unit of the Unification Church."

News World Communications owns United Press International

United Press International

United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century...

, The World and I, Tiempos del Mundo (Latin America), The Segye Ilbo (South Korea), The Sekai Nippo (Japan), the Zambezi Times (South Africa), The Middle East Times (Egypt) and GolfStyles

GolfStyles

GolfStyles is a regional golf magazine published in Fairfax, Virginia and serving the Washington D.C. area. It is also published in four other regional markets: Philadelphia, New Jersey, Ohio, and Atlanta. In early 2007, total circulation had grown to more than 315,000 per issue...

(formerly Washington Golf Monthly). Until 2008 it published the Washington D.C. based newsmagazine Insight on the News. Until 2010, it owned the Washington Times. On November 2, 2010, Sun Myung Moon and a group of former Times editors purchased the paper from News World.

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• Yahoo! Finance profile
• Who Owns What: News World Communications, Inc. - Columbia Journalism Review
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• Mediaowners.com profile
• Washington Times
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• The World and I
• GolfStyles online
• Tiempos Del Mundo in Spanish
• Segye Ilbo in Korean
• Sekai Nippo in Japanese