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

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.^{[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]