When Hyun Jin Moon hired his executive editor, John F. Solomon to lead the Washington Times, the paper then has gathered much recognition as well as awards. In addition, he was able to drive the Washington Times to acquire better positions in the mainstream media. On the other hand, he has also recieved many criticisms from a number of conservative people, but it never stopped him and Hyun Jin Moon from furthering their efforts in the contemporary approaches for their paper.
The Prospect magazine has once said that the Republican might possibly be losing its most devoted and most effective media ally for letting go of Solomon.
In the year 2010, Moon’s reverend father, Sun Myung Moon, together with a group of then editors of the Washington Times had purchased the paper from its original owber, News World Communications. This move has ended in a stalemate which considered as a threat of shutting down the operation of paper entirely.