The Jordan Times

The Jordan Times is an English-language daily newspaper based in Amman, Jordan.^[2]

The Jordan Times

The front page of The Jordan Times on Sunday 31 October 2010
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Jordan Press Foundation
Publisher	Jordan Press Foundation
Editor	Mohammad Ghazal
Founded	1975 [1]
Language	English
Headquarters	Amman
Sister newspapers	Al Ra'i
Website	www.jordantimes.com

History

Established in 1975,^[1] The Jordan Times is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, a shareholding company which also runs the Arabic-language daily Al Ra'i, the kingdom's best-selling newspaper.^{[citation needed]}

The Jordan Press Foundation has been majority government-owned since its inception, but it is unclear how much the government's stake has fallen since 2000, when a plan to sell some of the Foundation's shares was announced. The Jordan Times maintains editorial independence from its sister daily Al Ra'i.^{[citation needed]}

Content and profile

The newspaper includes two main sections:

• News: Covers local, regional, and world news, and includes subsections on business and sports.
• Opinions: Features opinion commentary and analysis by Jordanian, Arab, and international writers.

The paper's website was the 31st most visited website in the Arab world in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Alumni

Notable journalists who have worked at The Jordan Times include:

• Rami George Khouri, journalist and commentator on the Middle East. Former editor-in-chief.
• Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor reporter kidnapped in Iraq. Former reporter.
• Marwan Muasher, former minister of information. Former editor-in-chief.^[3]
• George Hawatmeh, founder of the Arab Media Institute. Former editor-in-chief.^[3]
• Ayman Safadi, Jordan's foreign minister. Former deputy prime minister and editor-in-chief.

From the 1980s to 2011 veteran journalist Randa Habib had a weekly column in The Times which was stopped by the paper's management.^[4]

References

1. Adam Jones (1999). "The Jordanian Media System: Broad Outlines". Free Servers. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. Guardian Staff (5 February 2002). "World news guide: Middle East". The Guardian.
3. Najjar, Orayb Aref (1998). "The Ebb and Flow of the Liberalization of the Jordanian Press: 1985−1997". Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 75 (127): 127–142. doi:10.1177/107769909807500113. S2CID 144187763.
4. Randa Habib (Fall 2011). "In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist are Realized". Nieman Reports. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

External links

• The Jordan Times website