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New York Times to Shutter IHT.com, Move Content to Own Site

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 8, 2008 - 12:58pm.

New York - The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) plans to shutter the website for the International Herald Tribune (IHT.com), and move its content to the flagship NYTimes.com website, Fortune.com reports. NYTimes.com general manager Vivan Schiller told Fortune the move was "absolutely, positively not about cost savings," but instead about growth. According to comScore, NYTimes.com drew 19.4 million unique visitors in August, compared to 2.5 million for IHT.com.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/46zxm (Forbes)

http://iht.nytimes.com

Published in DMW Daily, October 8, 2008
tags: Newspapers | Publishing | The New York Times | International Herald Tribune |



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