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''The Jordan Times'' was established in 1975<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, a shareholding company 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 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
The website of the paper was the 31st most visited website in the Arab world in 2013.{{citation needed}}
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