Editing Weekly World News (section)

== History ==
[[Generoso Pope Jr.]] launched the ''Weekly World News'' in 1979<ref name=closing2>Lori Becker, [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2007/07/24/0725WWN.html "Weekly World News tabloid to close up shop"], ''Palm Beach Post'', July 24, 2007 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821080334/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2007/07/24/0725WWN.html |date=August 21, 2007 }}</ref> to continue using the black-and-white press that sister tabloid ''[[The National Enquirer]]'' had been printed on before it switched to color printing.<ref name="WP-8-06-07"/> The ''WWN'' was published in [[Lantana, Florida]], until it moved to Boca Raton in the late 1990s. It was unique as a tabloid because it was printed entirely in black and white. Eddie Clontz was its long-time editor, a 10th-grade dropout from North Carolina, and a former copy editor at small newspapers.<ref name="WP-8-06-07"/> In the 2000s, the circulation of ''WWN'' peaked at 1.2 million per issue.  ''WWN'' went on to thrive online from 2009 to 2015 and was relaunched in 2019 by senior editor Greg D'Alessandro, along with investor David Collins.

The editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2018 was Neil McGinness.<ref name="heller">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/the-ingenious-sensationalism-of-the-weekly-world-new/381525/|title=Bat Boy, Hillary Clinton's Alien Baby, and a Tabloid's Glorious Legacy|last=Heller|first=Steven|date=October 16, 2014|publisher=theatlantic.com|access-date=July 5, 2015}}</ref> The editor-in-chief since August 2019 has been D'Alessandro.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://weeklyworldnews.com/about/|title = About WWN}}</ref>