Ed Kelley of Oklahoman is named editor of Washington Times

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Ed Kelley says it’s a brand-new day at the Washington Times, and he intends to help “reinvigorate” a newspaper that has been slowly mending after a period of uncertainty and infighting by its founding family.

Kelley, 58, was named editor of the paper Friday, filling a position that has been vacant since the departure of former editor Sam Dealey in November.

The hiring of Kelley, a veteran editor at the Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City, may signal a return to stability for the five-day-a-week Times, which survived a fractious, near-death period last year.

The newspaper was repurchased by a group led by its founder and Unification Church patriarch, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, in the fall from a faction headed by Moon’s eldest son, Preston. Moon had handed control of the paper to Preston Moon four years earlier, but his tenure was dominated by a dispute over its direction and finances with three of his siblings. At the height of the family quarrel, Preston Moon threatened to shut the publication down, Times sources said.

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1. Isn't the Washington Times also known as the "Moony Times"

aka: owned by the Rev Moony