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Remember those bygone days traipsing around Europe, when the only way of getting news from the English-speaking world was to pick up a copy of the International Herald Tribune? Yeah, we barely remember those days either. Now they're even more bygone, according to our tipster, who sends word that the words "International Herald Tribune" will no longer appear under the bylines of IHT writers whose work appears on the NYT's website. Somewhere, Jean Seberg and her IHT-hawking ways are crying a little bit, inside. The memo after the jump.

Friends,

Close readers of the NYT noticed something missing from Dan Bilefsky's story this morning on fears of a new Russian "occupation" in Latvia. No, nothing wrong with the story, which was fascinating. Missing was the agate identifier under his byline saying "International Herald Tribune." It's gone for good.

As best we can recall, the agate line originated as a way of promoting the close partnership of NYT and IHT. It proclaimed to Times readers: All the great journalists of the NYT, PLUS all the great journalists of the IHT! But our impression is that readers, if they noticed at all, reacted with a "huh?" And some at the IHT took it as a signal that the Trib pieces were somehow regarded as second-class bylines. So, no more. The NYT and the IHT will henceforth fly the same flag (which, agate-wise, is no flag.)

At the same time, and for the same reason (to show we are all one news organization), the IHT is dropping its agate lines that up to now have labeled stories as New York Times or International Herald Tribune. Since the top of the front page of the IHT proudly proclaims that it is Published by The New York Times, there seems no need to hammer the point that it is all New York Times journalism striving for the same high quality.

Bill Keller & Mike Oreskes