New York Herald

The New York Herald was a high-circulation newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835 to 1924.

The first edition was published by James Gordon Bennett senior. The Herald reported on 19 August 1848 the discovery of gold in the West. A gold rush to develop.

Under his son James Gordon Bennett Jr., the newspaper Henry Morton Stanley's financed expedition to Africa to find David Livingstone. 1879 supported the New York Herald which is under a bad star expedition of George W. DeLong into the Arctic.

On October 4, 1887 Bennett Jr. launched the European edition of the New York Herald in Paris. After Benetts death of the New York Herald in 1922 went to the rival newspaper the New York Tribune. In 1959 the New York Herald Tribune and its European edition was sold to John Hay Whitney, who was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain at the time. In 1966, the publication of the New York edition has been discontinued and The Washington Post and The New York Times jointly acquired control of the Paris edition, which was renamed in International Herald Tribune. After the New York Times had taken over 2002 100 % of the shares, the Herald is today still an important and influential English-language newspaper that is printed at 26 locations worldwide and sold in more than 180 countries.

The New York Herald Square was named after the New York Herald. Once there were located a few theaters for some time, today it is known as the site of the Macy's department store. There is a monument in honor of Bennett's on the north side of the square.