worldnetdaily.com

"WorldNetDaily.com is an independent news site created to capitalize on new media technology, to reinvigorate and revitalize the role of the free press as a guardian of liberty, an exponent of truth and justice, an uncompromising disseminator of news.

Founded by Joseph and Elizabeth Farah in May 1997, it is now a leading Internet news site in both traffic and influence.

Your name: Joseph Farah

Position / title: Founder and CEO

Company name: WorldNetDaily.com

Website: www.wnd.com

Your company / website vision statement / goal:

WorldNetDaily.com is an independent news site created to capitalize on new media technology, to reinvigorate and revitalize the role of the free press as a guardian of liberty, an exponent of truth and justice, an uncompromising disseminator of news.

WorldNetDaily.com performs this function by remaining faithful to the central role of a free press in a free society: as a watchdog exposing government waste, fraud, corruption and abuse of power - the mission envisioned by our founders and protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

What you sell / services you offer (brief description of your company):

WorldNetDaily.com is a free news site, the largest of all those news agencies expressly organized as Internet companies. It is supported by a combination of advertising and our own e-commerce activities, including the first book publishing enterprise by an Internet content company, a monthly magazine and premium online services.

Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your previous jobs / companies?

My background is mostly in running daily newspapers.

Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself academically?

In addition to serving as CEO, I write a daily column for WND, a twice-weekly column for Creators Syndicate and host a nationally syndicated talk-radio show for Radio America. I am also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last three years.

I have written for such publications as the Wall Street Journal,
Jerusalem Post, National Review, TV Guide, Reason, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and a host of other national, international and regional publications. I was the co-author, with U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo, of "This Land is Our Land" (1996), and in 1994 collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on the No. 1 New York Times best seller "See, I Told You So." My newest book is "Taking America Back," published in 2003. NBC television, New World Entertainment and other media giants have sought my expertise as a media consultant. I made a name for myself 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.

How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?

Founded in 1997, WorldNetDaily.com's editorial policy reflects the old-fashioned notion that the principal role of the free press in a free society is to serve as a watchdog on government - to expose corruption, fraud, waste and abuse wherever and whenever it is found. Its phenomenal growth is directly due to WorldNetDaily's editorial formula - "credible, fearless and independent."

If you could give readers of this book one piece of advice what would it be?