Ghosts of Papers’ Past
January 31, 2003
The New York Herald Tribune died in 1965, but the European edition survived and was jointly produced by The Washington Post and The New York Times… until now. After a bitter internal struggle between the two heavyweights, the Times beat out the Post and took sole ownership of the 115-year old publication. As Frank Browning reports, the troubled story of the Trib reveals much about both America’s romance with Paris, and the new reality of global branding in the media.
