chronology
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
* beginnings (1835)
* expansion offshore (1887)
* Whitney (1959)
* Times and Post (1991)
Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.
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
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
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