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 33 sites throughout the world, for sale
in more than 180 countries. The IHT is part of The New York Times
Company. It has been based in Paris since its founding in 1887.
History
"The Herald" was founded on October 4, 1887, as the European edition of the
New York Herald by the parent paper's owner, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. The company is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.
In 1928, the Herald became the first newspaper distributed by airplane, flying copies to
London from Paris in time for breakfast. Publication of the IHT was
interrupted between 1940–1944, during the occupation of Paris by
Nazi Germany.
In 1959, John Hay Whitney, a businessman and
US Ambassador to the UK, bought the New York
Herald and its European edition. In 1966, the New York paper 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; the newspaper
became known as the International Herald Tribune.
In 1974 the 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.
The IHT began to send 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 the newspaper.
As of 2007, the IHT is completely owned by The New York Times Company, after that firm purchased the 50% stake owned by the
Washington Post Company on December 30,
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.
Distribution
The paper is printed at 33 sites around the world and sells in more than 180 countries. It has a circulation of 242,200
(2005), which has increased since 2003 when its circulation was 233,400, but is still below its 2001 circulation of
263,900[1]. It
has about 335 employees.
Affiliations
Affiliations with international newspapers include:
External links
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