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| editor = Samir Barhoum
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| OCLC = 20791953
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==History and profile==
''The Jordan Times'' was established in 1976<ref>{{cite web|title=Country profile - Jordan|url=http://www.journalismnetwork.eu/index.php/_en/country_profiles/jordan/|publisher=Journalism Network|accessdate=13 August 2014}}</ref> and is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, which also runs the Arabic-language daily ''[[Al Ra'i (Jordanian newspaper)|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><ref>{{cite web|author1=Adam Jones|title=The Jordanian Media System: Broad Outlines|url=http://adamjones.freeservers.com/jordan.htm|publisher=Free Servers|accessdate=5 October 2014|year=1999}}</ref>
The Jordan Press Foundation has been majority government-owned since its inception, but it is unclear how much the government's stake 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''.
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