DHAKA: A chapter in newspaper history drew to a close on Tuesday with the renaming of the 125-year-old International Herald Tribune, amid a time of unprecedented upheaval for print media.

Editions of the paper that rolled off the presses early on Tuesday featured the publication’s new name, the International New York Times, although it retained its distinctive Gothic font masthead.

Richard Stevenson, the paper’s editor in Europe, told media there would be nostalgia for the old title but that its ‘DNA’ remained unchanged.

‘A couple of words in the name of the paper are changing (but) this paper’s name has changed multiple times throughout its history,’ he said, reports The Straits Times.

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