Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND.com, formerly known as WorldNetDaily, the world's first independent Internet news source.  WND.com was founded to serve the central role of the free press in a free society – serving as a watchdog on government and other powerful institutions. Earlier, Farah was editor-in-chief of the Sacramento Union, the oldest daily west of the Mississippi. He has written, co-authored or collaborated on more than a dozen books, including Taking America Back, and Rush Limbaugh’s See, I Told You So. He collaborated on six books with Hal Lindsey in the 1980s and 1990s. He has 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. Farah's many journalism awards include honors for reporting to writing headlines to honesty and courage in journalism to editing and newspaper design. He speaks all over the world on topics ranging from the Middle East to the media to domestic policy issues.