{{Short description|Newspaper in Jordan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Jordan Times | native_name = | image = The Jordan Times.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = The front page of ''The Jordan Times'' on Sunday 31 October 2010 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{start date and age|1975}}<ref name="Free Servers">{{cite web|author1=Adam Jones|title=The Jordanian Media System: Broad Outlines|url=http://adamjones.freeservers.com/jordan.htm|publisher=Free Servers|access-date=5 October 2014|year=1999|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006083246/http://adamjones.freeservers.com/jordan.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> | owner = Jordan Press Foundation | headquarters = Amman | editor = Raed Omari | publisher = Jordan Press Foundation | sister_newspapers = Al Ra'i | ISSN = | oclc = 20791953 | website = {{URL |https://www.jordantimes.com/}} | circulation = | language = English }}
'''''The Jordan Times''''' is an English-language daily newspaper based in Amman, Jordan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/05/world-news-guide-middle-east|title=World news guide: Middle East|author=Guardian Staff|date=5 February 2002|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
==History== Established in 1975,<ref name="Free Servers"/> ''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|date=January 2018}}
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|date=January 2018}}
==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|date=January 2018}}
==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.<ref name=naj>{{cite journal|last=Najjar|first=Orayb Aref|title=The Ebb and Flow of the Liberalization of the Jordanian Press: 1985−1997|journal=Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly|year=1998|volume=75|issue=127|pages=127–142|doi=10.1177/107769909807500113|s2cid=144187763 }}</ref> *George Hawatmeh, founder of the Arab Media Institute. Former editor-in-chief.<ref name=naj/> *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.<ref>{{cite web|title=In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist are Realized|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102678/In-Jordan-Some-Threats-Against-a-Foreign-Journalist-Are-Realized.aspx|work=Nieman Reports|access-date=21 September 2013|author=Randa Habib|date=Fall 2011|archive-date=22 September 2013|archive-url=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|url-status=live}}</ref>
==See also== *Arab News *El Watan
==References== {{Reflist|33em}}
==External links== *[https://www.jordantimes.com/ The Jordan Times website]
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