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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=September 2013}} {{Infobox newspaper \| name = The Jordan Times \|native_name = \| image = [[File:The Jordan Times.jpg\|300px]] \| caption = The front page of ''The Jordan Times'' on Sunday ~~October~~ 31, October 2010 \| type = Daily newspaper \| format = Broadsheet<ref name=publ>{{cite web\|title=Jordan\|url=http://www.publicitas.com/fileadmin/uploads/italy/Files/ME_portfolio_01.pdf\|publisher=Publicitas\|accessdate=~~June~~ 8, June 2012}}</ref> \| foundation = 1975 \| owners = Jordan Press Foundation Line 11 ⟶ 12: \| editor = Samir Barhoum \| publisher = Jordan Press Foundation \| sister newspapers=[[Al Ra'i]] \| ISSN = \| OCLC = 20791953 \| website = [http://www.jordantimes.com Official website] \| circulation = }} '''''The Jordan Times''''' is an English daily newspaper based in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]. The newspaper was established in 1975 and is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, which also runs the Arabic-language daily [[Al Ra'i]], the Kingdom's best selling daily.<ref>[http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093191789 MENA Financial Network \| Jordan Press Foundation Makes Further Leap]</ref> The Jordan Press Foundation has been majority government-owned since its inception, but it's is unclear how much the government's stake has fallen since a plan to sell some of its shares was announced in 2000. ''The Jordan Times'' maintains [[editorial independence]] from its sister daily ''Al Rai''. ~~The Jordan Times maintains [[editorial independence]] from its sister daily Al Rai.~~ ==Content== The newspaper includes two main sections: * News: covers local, regional, and world news. As well as ~~Business~~business and ~~Sports~~sports subsections * Opinions: includes ~~within it Opinion~~opinion, Ods and Ends, and ~~Weather~~weather subsections. On ~~October~~ 8, October 2008, the U.S. Embassy in [[Lebanon]] said that two American reporters who work for the Times, [[Holli Chmela]] and [[Taylor Luck]], had not been heard from since October 1. The pair had left Jordan to vacation in Lebanon on September 29. On October 1 they told a friend they were leaving [[Beirut]] to travel to the northern town of [[Tripoli]] via [[Byblos]]. The embassy said they were planning to travel to [[Syria]], before returning home to Amman on October 4.<ref> [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_missing_americans/ 2 American Journalist Missing in Lebanon]</ref>▼ ~~==Missing Americans==~~ ▲On October 8, 2008, the U.S. Embassy in [[Lebanon]] said that two American reporters who work for the Times, [[Holli Chmela]] and [[Taylor Luck]], had not been heard from since October 1. The pair had left Jordan to vacation in Lebanon on September 29. On October 1 they told a friend they were leaving [[Beirut]] to travel to the northern town of [[Tripoli]] via [[Byblos]]. The embassy said they were planning to travel to [[Syria]], before returning home to Amman on October 4.<ref> [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_missing_americans/ 2 American Journalist Missing in Lebanon]</ref> On ~~October~~ 9 October, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said it had arrested and was questioning the two Americans. The ministry statement said the two had entered the country illegally, with the help of smugglers, and that the two would soon be turned over to the US Embassy in [[Damascus]].<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/09/world/main4511457.shtml 2 Missing Americans Arrested in Syria]</ref> Later that day, the couple were released and were reported to be safe at the US Embassy in Damascus.<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/09/world/main4511457.shtml Missing Americans Freed From Syrian Jail \| AP via CBS News]</ref> ==Alumni== Notable journalists who have worked at ''the Times'' include:▼ ▲Notable journalists who have worked at the 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 ''the Times'' reporter. From the 1980s to 2011 veteran journalist [[Randa Habib]] had a weekly column which was stopped.<ref name=nreport>{{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\|accessdate=21 September 2013\|author=Randa Habib\|date=Fall 2011}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ~~<references />~~ {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan Times}} {{Newspapers in Jordan}} [[Category:1975 establishments in Jordan]] [[Category:Publications established in 1975]] [[Category:English-language newspapers published in Arab countries]] [[Category:Newspapers published in Jordan]] [[Category:~~Publications~~Jordanian ~~established in 1975~~media]] ~~[[Category:Jordanian media\|Jordan Times]]~~ [[Category:Media in Amman]]

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