The New York Times International Edition

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International Herald Tribune
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The New York Times Company
PublisherStephen Dunbar-Johnson
EditorMartin Gottlieb (Editor, Global Edition)
Alison Smale (Executive Editor)
Founded1887
Political alignmentNone
HeadquartersNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
Several international offices
Circulation242,073
Websitewww.global.nytimes.com

The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories. Based in Paris since 1887, [1] The IHT is part of The New York Times Company.

History

The Paris Herald was founded on 4 October 1887, as the European edition of the New York Herald by the parent paper's owner, James Gordon Bennett, Jr.[2][3] The company was based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.

After the 1918 death of Bennett, Frank Andrew Munsey bought the New York Herald and the Paris Herald. Munsey sold the Herald newspapers in 1924 to the New York Tribune, and the Paris Herald became the Paris Herald Tribune while the New York paper became New York Herald Tribune.

In 1928 the Paris Herald Tribune became the first newspaper distributed by airplane, flying copies to London from Paris in time for breakfast. Publication of the newspaper was interrupted during Nazi Germany's occupation of Paris (1940–1944).

In 1959 John Hay Whitney, a businessman and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, bought the New York Herald Tribune and its European edition. In 1966 the New York Herald Tribune closed, but the Whitney family kept the Paris paper going through partnerships. In December 1966 The Washington Post became a joint owner.

The New York Times became a joint owner of the Herald in May 1967, whereupon the newspaper became known as the International Herald Tribune (IHT).[2]

In 1974 IHT began transmitting facsimile pages of the paper between nations and opened a printing site near London. In 1977 the paper opened a second site in Zürich.

IHT began transmitting electronic images of newspaper pages from Paris to Hong Kong via satellite in 1980, making the paper simultaneously available on opposite sides of the planet. This was the first such intercontinental transmission of an English-language daily newspaper and followed the pioneering efforts of the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily newspaper.

In 1991 The Washington Post and The New York Times became sole and equal shareholders of IHT. In February 2005 it opened its Asia newsroom in Hong Kong.

The New York Times takeover

As of 2003 IHT is completely owned by The New York Times Company, after that firm purchased the 50% stake owned by The Washington Post Company on 30 December 2002. The takeover ended a 35-year partnership between the two domestic competitors. The Post was forced to sell when the Times threatened to pull out and start a competing paper. As a result, the Post entered into an agreement to publish selected articles in The Wall Street Journal's European edition. Since the takeover the newspaper has been subtitled "The Global Edition of the New York Times".

In 2008 the NYT Company announced the merger of the New York Times and IHT websites. As of March 2009 the IHT website is now the global version of NYTimes.com. The IHT's old domain, iht.com, now redirects to global.nytimes.com.

Columnists

While the International Herald Tribune shares many columnists with The New York Times, it has its own voice, particularly in the field of culture. Well-known commentators include Suzy Menkes on fashion, Alice Rawsthorn on design, and Souren Melikian on art.

Affiliations

Affiliations with international newspapers include:


Typically, the affiliation consists of an English-language edition of the local newspaper circulated together with the IHT.

References

  1. ^ http://www.ihtinfo.com/about/about.html
  2. ^ a b "History". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2010-07-04. Entrepreneur James Gordon Bennett Jr. founded the New York Herald's European edition in 1887. Cosmopolitan and innovative, Bennett was the embodiment of an international spirit that thrived through changes of ownership and name until the newspaper became the International Herald Tribune in 1967.
  3. ^ James L. Crouthamel (1989). Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press. Syracuse University Press.

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