The Jordan Times Explained

The Jordan Times
Type:	Daily newspaper
Format:	Broadsheet
Foundation:	1975 ^[1]
Owner:	Jordan Press Foundation
Headquarters:	Amman
Editor:	Mohammad Ghazal
Publisher:	Jordan Press Foundation
Sister Newspapers:	Al Ra'i
Oclc:	20791953
Language:	English

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

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.

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.

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.

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adam Jones. The Jordanian Media System: Broad Outlines. Free Servers. 5 October 2014. 1999. 6 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006083246/http://adamjones.freeservers.com/jordan.htm. live.
2. Web site: World news guide: Middle East. Guardian Staff. 5 February 2002. The Guardian.
3. Najjar. Orayb Aref. The Ebb and Flow of the Liberalization of the Jordanian Press: 1985−1997. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 1998. 75. 127. 127–142. 10.1177/107769909807500113. 144187763 .
4. Web site: In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist are Realized. Nieman Reports. 21 September 2013. Randa Habib. Fall 2011. 22 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130922172942/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102678/In-Jordan-Some-Threats-Against-a-Foreign-Journalist-Are-Realized.aspx. live.