About

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The Herald de Paris is an award-winning, all-digital publication, founded in 2008 by San Francisco Chronicle columnist James Sved, and was the biggest, baddest, most innovative digital newspaper on the planet. We don't like to brag, but we were compared to The New Yorker for the high level of our impeccably written articles. High praise for a daily. We won awards, and some of the big names in the print media called us on the sly, to find out how we did it. And we did it all for free, because we have always believed that access to news and information should never be limited by socioeconomic status. Our celebrity as a major news media machine had consequences - our database was attacked and destroyed twice, once as part of the horrific Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, in 2015. Over the last few years, much of the news media at-large has become a cesspool of partisan propaganda and opinion, not news, and certainly not journalism.

The proliferation of pay-per-view blogs parading as news has clouded the field even more. Our original editorial team got together and decided it was time for an upgrade. Where the old Herald brought the panache of a traditional broadsheet to digital, the current Herald is leaner, more agile, forward thinking, and on the cutting edge. In spite of our name, we're still a 100% American, and American-owned publication.

 Our writers have included Dr. Al Carlos Hernandez, Roger W. Morgan, Benny Rietveld, Thomas Adcock, Chef Dominique Crenn, Chef Andre Carthen, Anna Wilding, Jes Alexander, William Yankes, Matt Balasis, Bianca Jagger, Kathy Ireland, Yoko Ono, Kirsten Brownrigg, Cartoonist Liza Donnelly, Murray Chass, and many more. During the great purge of the newspaper industry 2005-2010, scores of veteran journalists and writers signed non-compete clauses as part of their buyout packages. Many continued to write anonymously, for us, under the byline, “Herald de Paris Contributors Bureau.” As one of the first all-digital news publications, the Herald de Paris originally had writers covering the news in the US, London, and Paris. Additionally, from 2008-2011, the Herald de Paris produced Le Morning Show on Twitter. Le Morning Show was the first interactive, textural news program on the social media, and its format was emulated by the New York Times, NASA, and many others. At its height, the Herald de Paris had millions of readers, primarily in the US, but also in London and Paris and around the world. We're always looking for professional human journalists to provide the world with free, honest, unbiased, non-partisan news. 

The Herald de Paris was born of greatness.  Our publisher was writing a print and digital column for the San Francisco Chronicle during the great realignment of the print media, 2005-2008.  On the way out the door, with a non-compete in his hand, one of the managing editors of The Chronicle strongly suggested that SOMEONE should create a space where all these veteran professional newspaper people with non-compete agreements could continue to write.  The idea took off, and THE HERALD DE PARIS launched on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election.  Immediately, we were asked, “Who are you endorsing?”  Our response was resolute: “We don’t endorse any one candidate.  We endorse our readers read up on the issues, and make informed decision for themselves, instead of blindly following any one party or, God forbid, Oprah.”  The die was cast.

Our logo has, in one form or another, graced the masthead of a number of great newspapers over the past 175 years.  It first appeared on The New York World around 1850, and went on to top the New York Herald, The New York Herald Tribune, and finally The International Herald Tribune before the New York Times Co. decided to re-brand the IHT as the New York Times Global Edition.  We stepped in, arranged with the NYT to take over the venerable dingbat, and preserve a print media tradition.  We simplified the dingbat, added the Eiffel Tower, and made it our own.

THE MYSTERY OF 6:11

On every single newspaper that has carried the dingbat logo all these 175 years, the logo’s centerpiece has been a clock showing the time as 6:11. Nobody remembers why. Want to venture a guess? Drop us a line on the Contact form.

The Herald de Paris has evolved.
We  outgrew the need to replicate the traditional broadsheet on a digital platform, and are now presenting the same high quality balanced reporting; traditional unbiased news in the public trust on a sleek, lean, and attractive 21st Century, forward-driven digital form. 

We like it here.

And we aren’t going anywhere. Sure, we’ll continue to innovate while bringing you our unique and award-winning mix of news, features, interviews, and video content, but the more technology advances, we won’t just keep up, we plan to stay ahead of the curve. 

Buckle up, put your seat backs in their original and upright position, and get ready for the ride.  We’re 100% Certified Organic, Gluten Free, and naturally low in calories.  In short, the Herald de Paris is good for you.  

Welcome to  the newspaper as it’s supposed to be, unbiased and unapologetic. Always free. Always in the public trust.