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The Washington Times (Opinion)

U.S. right (conservative)

Owned byOwned by Operations Holdings, Inc., a business entity tied to the Unification Church movement founded by Sun Myung Moon. The publisher, The Washington Times LLC, is held through TWT Holdings, LLC. Preston Moon, a son of the founder, has served as chairman.
FundingAdvertising, subscriptions and newsletters, and, historically, large subsidies from Unification Church-affiliated entities. The paper has long lost money, and those subsidies have been reported to total well over $1 billion. Current subsidy levels are not publicly detailed.
On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, as a conservative alternative to The Washington Post. It was heavily subsidized by church-linked money for decades, and its staff and editorials were strongly anti-communist during the Cold War. It was popular with Reagan-era conservatives. In 2002 it marked its twentieth anniversary with Moon's remarks that the paper was a tool for spreading his teachings. Moon died in 2012. A 2008 round of layoffs and cutbacks, and a 2010 ownership dispute between Moon's family members and a group of former executives, led to control by Operations Holdings and a smaller newsroom. The paper has faced criticism over its ties to the church and over some editorial choices, including past coverage on climate science and immigration that critics call slanted. Its editorial and opinion pages are a mainstay of the U.S. right, publish many conservative columnists and guest writers, and tend to back Republican presidents. In the Trump era its opinion pages have largely backed administration positions on immigration, taxes and foreign policy, with occasional disagreements on specific issues. Its parent church is also involved in litigation in Washington, D.C. over control of church assets, and in Japan the church was ordered dissolved, though how either affects the paper is not clear.

Sources

  1. The Washington Times - Wikipedia
  2. Washington Times - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  3. News World Communications - Wikipedia
  4. About - The Washington Times
  5. Unification Church dispute over funds gets day in court in D.C. - Washington Times

Profile compiled 2026-10-21; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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