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James R. Whelan, First Editor of The Washington Times, Dies at 79

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

James R. Whelan, the founding editor and publisher of The Washington Times, the newspaper established in 1982 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his South Korea-based Unification Church, died on Saturday at his home in Miami. Mr. Whelan was ousted from the newspaper after just two years, saying it had become what its detractors had always said it was, “a Moonie newspaper.” He was a 1967 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

Class of 1967

First row (from left): Crispulo J. Icban Jr., Hiranmay Karlekar, Bang-hyun Lim, Alvin Shuster, William Meek, Satoshi Ogawa, Dwight Sargent (Curator).

Second row: L. Dewey James Jr., Dana Bullen II, Zawwar Hasan, Joseph Mohbat, Anthony Day, Richard Stewart, Ken Clawson.

Third row: Louis Louw, James Whelan, Remer Tyson, David Hoffman, Philip Meyer, William Woo.