[3] In 1887, James Gordon Bennett Jr. created a Paris edition of his newspaper the New York Herald[4] with offices at 49, avenue de l'Opéra.

By 1967, the paper was owned jointly by Whitney Communications, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and became known as the International Herald Tribune, or IHT.

[8] At the start, the paper maintained the offices it inherited from the Herald Tribune European Edition – that dated to 1931[9] – at 21 Rue de Berri, just off the Champs-Élysées.

[9] In 1974, the paper pioneered the innovation of doing electronic transmission of facsimile pages across borders, when it opened a remote printing facility in London.

[11] The International Herald Tribune began transmitting 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.

[15] By the early 1990s, the paper was printed concurrently around the globe, with seven sites in Europe, three in Asia, and one in America, allowing day-of-publication availability in all major cities worldwide.

[17][18] Marking a departure from its origins as a paper mostly read by American expatriates and travelers in Europe,[11] by this point the majority of its readers were non-American.

[17] As the 21st century dawned, there were divided opinions regarding the International Herald Tribune's place in the media world, with for instance James Ledbetter of Slate pronouncing it a relic of a by-gone era but Peter Osnos of The Atlantic believing it still had a role to play.

[11] By the early 2010s, the Internet edition of the paper was receiving some seven million visitors per month, and overall the IHT represented one of the biggest global media entities.

[22] Among the most well-known were the humorist Art Buchwald,[23] the fashion editor Suzy Menkes,[24] jazz critic Mike Zwerin[25] and food writers Waverly Root[26] and Patricia Wells.