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beginnings
1832
James Gordon Bennett founds New York Globe
1835 founds New York Herald
1841 New York Tribune founded by Horace Greeley
1851 first issue of the New-York Daily Times
1857 name changed to The New-York Times
1861 first Sunday issue of The Times
1872 Whitelaw Reid gains control of New York Tribune
expansion offshore
1887 J Gordon Bennett Jr launches Paris edition of NY
Herald
1896 Adolph S. Ochs buys
controlling stake in The New-York Times
1913 Times sells Philadelphia Public Ledger to
Curtis
1920 Munsey buys New York Herald,
Paris Herald and New York Evening Telegram
for US$4m
1922 Munsey sells Heralds and Evening Telegram
to Reid family
1922 merger of New York Herald and New York Tribune
1928 Paris edition of Herald claimed as first
newspaper distributed by airplane (copies flown to London
from Paris for breakfast)
Whitney
1933 John Hay Whitney organises Pioneer Pictures
1935 finances Selznick International Pictures (Rebecca,
A Star is Born, Gone With the Wind)
1940 German occupation interrupts publishing of Paris
edition of Herald Tribune
1944 Paris edition resumes
1959 John Hay Whitney buys NY Herald Tribune
and Paris Herald Tribune
1966 Whitney family closes NY Herald Tribune,
sells 50% of Paris Herald Tribune to Washington
Post
1967 New York Times Company goes public
1967 takes 33% stake in Paris Herald Tribune,
which is rebadged as International Herald Tribune
1970 Whitney Communications Corporation buys Art in
America
1971 NY Times buys Cowles Communications
(inc Family Circle and Look magazines, Cambridge
Book Company, Memphis tv station and regional newspapers)
for US$67m
1971 Dun & Bradstreet buys Whitney-controlled
Corinthian Broadcasting (five CBS tv affiliates)
1976 Whitney Communications buys Newark Post
and Kent County News
1978 buys Columbia Flier
Times and Post
1991 NY Times and Washington Post
buy Whitney's 33% stake in International Herald Tribune
2003 NY Times buys Washington Post's stake in International
Herald Tribune for US$65m
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