International Herald Tribune

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International Herald Tribune
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	The New York Times Company
Editor	Michael Oreskes
Founded	1887
Political allegiance	none
Headquarters	Paris, France Several international offices
Website: www.iht.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 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Distribution 2.1 Affiliations 3 External links

[edit] 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 newspaper.

In 1991, The Washington Post and The New York Times became sole and equal shareholders of the newspaper. It is now completely owned by The New York Times Company after it 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.

[edit] Distribution

The influential 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.

[edit] Affiliations

Affiliations with international newspapers include:

• Daily Star (Lebanon)
• Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
• Joongang Daily (South Korea)
• Haaretz (Israel)
• Kathimerini (Greece)
• El País (Spain) A daily, eight-page English language version of El País comes with the Spanish edition of IHT.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• International Herald Tribune timeline
• Ketupa.net's New York Herald-Tribune and IHT media profile