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

Posted: 12/4/2012  |  By: Bruce Weber | New York Times

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 79.