With the advent of the internet, newspapers have become increasingly unpopular sources of information. But the truth is that there are some good ones out there. Here are my top 5 favorite newspapers, and an introduction to the newspapers courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Washington Times

The Washington Times was founded by the direction of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon in 1982. Bo Hi Pak, called Moon’s “right-hand man”, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board.[3] In 2002, during the 20th anniversary party for the Times, Moon said, “The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world.”[4]
At the time of the Times’ founding Washington had only one major newspaper, the Washington Post. The Post had been one of the leading critics of Moon’s anti-communist political activism. Massimo Introvigne, in his book on the Unification Church, said that the Post was “the most anti-Unificationist paper in the United States.”[5]
By 2002, the Unification Church had spent about $1.7 billion in subsidies for the Times. The paper has lost money every year that it has been in business.[6] In 2003, The New Yorker reported that a billion dollars had been spent since the paper’s inception, as Moon himself had noted in a 1991 speech, “Literally nine hundred million to one billion dollars has been spent to activate and run the Washington Times“[7]. In 2002, Columbia Journalism Review suggested Moon had spent nearly $2 billion on the Times[8] In 2008, Thomas F. Roeser of the Chicago Daily Observer mentioned competition from the Times as a factor moving the Washington Post to the right, and said that Moon had “announced he will spend as many future billions as is needed to keep the paper competitive.”[9]
The Orange County Register

The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. The Register has the third largest paid daily circulation in California, behind only the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. The Register is the flagship publication of Freedom Communications, Inc., which publishes 28 daily newspapers, 23 weekly newspapers, “Coast” magazine, and several related Internet sites.
The Register is notable for its generally conservative/libertarian-leaning editorial page. It often supports Republican politicians and positions, but it is also the largest newspaper in the country to have opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and opposes laws regulating issues such as prostitution and drug use. It was one of a handful of newspapers that opposed the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans during World War II.[2][3]
Investor’s Business Daily
Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy. Founded in 1984 by William O’Neil, its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California.
…O’Neil founded the newspaper in 1984 to “offer information not available in The Wall Street Journal and other publications” for “investors and business executives who did not have time for two and three section papers each day.”[3]
It also provided investor education through its Investor’s Corner, the Big Picture, and online resources. The information provided expands on William O’Neil’s previous books.
IBD includes several written sections that detail companies and news of interest. The New America and Internet & Technology sections highlight companies that may be desirable for the newspaper’s readers. The newspaper’s opinions and analysis of global and national events are highlighted in the Editorials and Opinion section.
In 1991, the publication’s name was changed from Investor’s Daily to Investor’s Business Daily. Ten years after founding, it had a paid circulation of 149,557, with a claimed “total readership” of 850,000 (also phrased as “nearly 1,000,000 readers”), though in 2002, the Los Angeles Business Journal said that it has not been a moneymaker, and had had a decline in ad spending, though other O’Neil companies had done well.
[Note: Wikipedia omits the extent of the libertarian-conservative tone of the editorial page. Admittedly, the paper used to be better, but it's still pretty darned good.]
The Wall Street Journal

Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Journal, was founded in 1882 by reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Jones converted the small Customers’ Afternoon Letter into The Wall Street Journal, first published in 1889,[8] and began delivery of the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph. The Journal featured the Jones ‘Average’, the first of several indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange.
Journalist Clarence Barron purchased control of the company for US$130,000 in 1902; circulation was then around 7,000 but climbed to 50,000 by the end of the 1920s. Barron and his predecessors were credited with creating an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting — a novelty in the early days of business journalism.[9]
Barron died in 1928, a year before Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression in the United States. Barron’s descendants, the Bancroft family, would continue to control the company until 2007.[9]
Later on, the Woodworths published the paper. Mrs. Teresa “Teddy” Woodworth was a prominent socialite of her day. The Woodworths resided at New York’s Sherry-Netherland, sharing the penthouse floor with Cole Porter.[citation needed]
The Journal took its modern shape and prominence in the 1940s, a time of industrial expansion for the United States and its financial institutions in New York. Bernard Kilgore was named managing editor of the paper in 1941, and company CEO in 1945, eventually compiling a 25-year career as the head of the Journal. Kilgore was the architect of the paper’s iconic front-page design, with its “What’s News” digest, and its national distribution strategy, which brought the paper’s circulation from 33,000 in 1941 to 1.1 million at the time of Kilgore’s death in 1967. It was also on Kilgore’s watch, in 1947, that the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize, for editorial writing.[9]
Its reputation secure as the nation’s preeminent business news and conservative opinion newspaper, The Wall Street Journal nevertheless fell on uncertain times in the 1990s, as declining advertising and rising newsprint costs—contributing to the first-ever annual loss at Dow Jones in 1997—raised speculation that the paper might have to drastically change, or be sold.[9]
Hamodia

Hamodia (Hebrew: המודיע, meaning “the announcer“) is a Hebrew language daily newspaper, published in Israel. A daily English language edition is also published in the United States and Israel, and a weekly edition is published in England. A weekly edition is now available to French readers. The U.S. version is the first Haredi Jewish daily newspaper ever published in English in the U.S. It is also the only Orthodox Jewish newspaper published daily in two different country editions. The paper was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Y. L. Levin, son of the Agudat Israel leader Rabbi I.M. Levin of Warsaw and Jerusalem.
Editorial policy reflects the Haredi point of view. Although not Zionist on ideological grounds it is right of center in its Israeli coverage. It is very vociferous on the thorny issue of Jerusalem and opposes even minimal concessions. Torah and community related topics are more often written by the reporters at the paper, while most of the national and international news is taken from other news sources, such as Reuters and the Associated Press. Pictures of women are not displayed in the newspaper. A weekly edition, in English, is published simultaneously in Jerusalem, London and New York. As hareidi culture shuns television, internet usage and the reading of secular newspapers, Hamodia is one of the few news sources available to many of its readers. There are no internet editions of Hamodia.
More than just a newspaper, they promote a way of life that is based on family values and spiritual growth. they are the sole access point to a community that shies away from mainstream culture, avoiding the dangers of immodest images and innuendo found on the internet and opting for a life based on powerful tradition. Parents trust Hamodia as a ‘filter’ because it is seen as the only ‘safe’ option….