Davis reportedly wrote an email stating that he could not take part in the meeting because, “My commission is inherently covert.” Davis, IBT’s ostensible cofounder and chief content officer, was invited but declined to take part in a meeting with leaders of Mr. IBT’s two cofounders seem to have ties to Mr. (That investigation, incidentally, was named one of the “Best Long Reads of 2012″ by The Daily Beast, which had partnered with Newsweek.) Jang’s church by the magazine Christianity Today also lists IBT as among Mr. IBT Media’s corporate leadership site lists two cofounders: Etienne Uzac, the company’s CEO, and Johnathan Davis, its chief content officer.īut some say that the company is actually controlled by-or at least has very close undisclosed ties to-someone whose name appears nowhere on the site: David Jang, a controversial Korean Christian preacher who has been accused of calling himself “Second Coming Christ.”Ī story in The Tennessean about Olivet University, a university founded by Mr.
On Saturday, news broke that IBT Media, a company that runs the online business (at least, in theory) newspaper International Business Times, had purchased Newsweek from IAC.
Email Moonies, Messiahs and Media: Who Really Owns Newsweek? Is it controlled by a controversial Christian preacher?
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