Defense News

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Defense News
Cover of Defense News from April 3, 2017
Type Weekly ( news )
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Sightline Media Group
Publisher Michael Reinstein
Editor-in-chief Mike Gruss
Founded 1986
Language English
Headquarters Tysons, Virginia
ISSN 0884-139X
Website www .defensenews .com

Defense News is a website and newspaper about the politics, business, and technology of national security published by Sightline Media Group . Founded in 1986, Defense News serves an audience of senior military, government, and industry decision-makers throughout the world. [1]

History [ edit ]

Defense News was founded as a weekly newspaper by Army Times Publishing Company . ATPCO was sold in 1997 to Gannett Company [2] (later renamed TEGNA ), which sold it to Los Angeles?based private equity firm Regent in 2016, which renamed it Sightline Media Group . [3] [4] [5] [6]

Television [ edit ]

Defense News has a weekly television show about international defense and military issues. It first aired March 2, 2008, as This Week in Defense News with Vago Muradian on WUSA 9 , a Washington, D.C. , CBS affiliate. It later aired on ABC 7 WJLA and the Armed Forces Network . [7] In April 2017, the show relaunched on WETA-TV as Defense News Weekly [8] [9] with two co-hosts: Jill Aitoro, Defense News executive editor; and Tony Lombardo, executive editor of Military Times , another Sightline brand. In September 2017, Jeff Martin, a former TV reporter from Alabama, took over hosting and producing duties. The show later moved off WETA to AFN and various online platforms. [ citation needed ]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "About Us" . Defense News . 2021-07-13. Archived from the original on 2024-02-28 . Retrieved 2022-11-28 .
  2. ^ "Gannett Completes Purchase of Army Times Publishing Co. | TEGNA" . www.tegna.com . Archived from the original on 2022-11-28 . Retrieved 2022-11-28 .
  3. ^ "Army Times Publishing Company, Inc" . Army Times Publishing Company. Archived from the original on 2010-11-08 . Retrieved 2008-12-09 .
  4. ^ " May 2014 Gannett Press Release " . Archived from the original on 2015-01-25 . Retrieved 2015-03-18 .
  5. ^ " Interview: Brad Peniston of Defense News talks about Blogs and their impact on Defense News web site" . Archived from the original on 2008-08-19 . Retrieved 2008-09-24 .
  6. ^ "Tegna CEO Gracia Martore made $14.7 million in 2015 - Washington Business Journal" . Archived from the original on 2016-12-24 . Retrieved 2016-04-17 .
  7. ^ "WUSA Teams Up with Weekly Defense News " . Broadcasting & Cable. 2008-01-28. Archived from the original on 2008-12-02 . Retrieved 2008-12-09 .
  8. ^ "Defense News unveils enhancements to TV show" . Defense News . 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024 . Retrieved 4 April 2017 .
  9. ^ "Defense News TV" . WETA-TV . Archived from the original on 6 April 2017 . Retrieved 4 April 2017 .

External links [ edit ]

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