King Publishing Launches New Military Daily

Posted on March 19, 2004

King Publishing is combining two of its weekly defense publications, Defense Week and Navy News & Undersea Technology. They now will be published daily as Defense Today.

"When I started publishing Defense Week 25 years ago, the weekly frequency was appropriate to the times and to the subject. Now, with things moving so fast, it is important for us to bring the news to our readers daily," said Llewellyn King, publishers and founder of Defense Week and Navy News & Undersea Technology.

"I started Defense Week because, at the time, it was my belief that the defense community was poorly served by its press. It was clear to me that much of the media covered the Pentagon through its critics, and that the trade press was too close to its subject," King said. "The concept of Defense Week, and later Navy News, was that we would examine the good and the bad in defense, sending reporters to the Pentagon, to the battlefield and to test sites in order to tell the public what worked and what did not; how the taxpayers' money was being spent."

Defense Today would be not only more timely, but it would also lend itself to spontaneous electronic delivery, King said. In particular, he added, companies and defense organizations can contract to put the new publication on line for a larger number of readers through exclusive site licenses with its publisher, King Publishing Group.

"It is sad to retire such noble titles as Defense Week and Navy News, but their spirit is not retired. If anything, their spirit of great journalism will be invigorated," King added.

In addition to publishing Defense Today, King publishes White House Weekly, The Energy Daily, New Technology Week and Space and Missile Defense. He also produces and hosts White House Chronicle, a weekly public affairs program airing on PBS, and writes a nationally syndicated column.