Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily (WND).

Farah made a name for himself with traditional daily newspapers prior to his founding of WorldNetDaily – running the Sacramento Union, directing the news operation of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for six years and serving as editor in chief of a group of California dailies and weeklies. While at the Sacramento Union (a newspaper owned prior to Farah's tenure by Richard Mellon Scaife), Farah took the paper in an even more conservative direction than it had been under Scaife and skewing stories to reflect conservative ideas. Farah resigned as editor 15 months later; under his editorship, the paper's circulation declined nearly 30 percent, from 72,000 to 52,000. (The paper closed in 1994 but was revived in 2004.)

After leaving the Union, Farah and James H. Smith, the former publisher of the Union, co-founded the Western Journalism Center (WJC). In 1997 the WJC started WorldNetDaily, and in 1999 WND was spun off as a for-profit subsidiary. The greater part of WND is owned by Farah.

Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly column syndicated by Creators Syndicate. He has written for publications such as the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Farah is a member of the Council for National Policy.

The website of the Ariel Center for Policy Research lists Farah as a "Contributing Expert." In June 2001, Farah authored a policy paper for the Center titled "How Islam Plays the Press". The paper was published in the Center's journal Nativ, and later as part of the book Muhammad's Monsters. Farah is himself an Arab-American.

Books

 * None of the Above: Why 2008 Is the Year to Cast the Ultimate Protest Vote, WND Books, August 2008, ISBN 1935071017.
 * Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution, WND Books, April 2007, ISBN 097904510X.
 * Taking America Back: A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom, Morality, and Justice, WND Books, 2003, ISBN 1581824696.
 * This Land Is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property (with Richard Pombo), St. Martin's Press, 1996, ISBN 0312147473.
 * Collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on See, I Told You So, Atria Books, 1993, ISBN 067187120X.

SourceWatch Resources

 * Bush administration smear campaigns
 * Swiftboating Joseph Wilson