New York Times to Shutter IHT.com Site

Posted on October 11, 2008

Forbes.com reports that the New York Times Co. is going to shutter the International Herald Tribune website at IHT.com.

The Times told staff in an internal e-mail Tuesday that the paper's flagship Web site will soon become host to news from sister paper the International Herald Tribune and that the Tribune's site will be shuttered. The move will require "hard decisions about jobs at the IHT," and the company is now looking to "reassign or relocate people," according to the memo.
In an interview Tuesday, NYTimes.com General Manager Vivian Schiller insisted that "it's absolutely, positively not about cost savings." Rather, it's about growth, she said.

The New York Times Co. is not shuttering the International Herald Tribune newspaper only the IHT.com website. IHT Publisher Stephen Dunbar-Johnson told Reuters, "There's no plan to close The International Herald Tribune. The IHT isn't going anywhere."

Content from IHT.com will be moved to the nytimes.com website which is probably a logical movie for the Times instead of running two separate sites. It has to be confusing to some people that the company runs a global edition under a different name.