End of an era as venerable ‘Herald Tribune’ to be reborn as ‘International New York Times’

Change reflects aim to build international presence and bow to digital age

The International Herald Tribune headquarters in Paris. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/GettyImages)

The International Herald Tribune headquarters in Paris. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/GettyImages)

In the 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, the first thing Ernest Hemingway’s fictional alter ego, Jake Barnes, does on returning from Spain to France is to buy the New York Herald from a kiosk in Bayonne, sit down at a cafe and read it.

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 New Wave film classic Breathless consecrated the newspaper – by that time called the New York Herald Tribune – as a symbol of expatriate American life in Paris, portraying Jean Seberg as a student hawking the paper on the Champs-Élysées.

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