The International Herald Tribune will launch a news weekly supplement in association with Reuters tomorrow MediaGuardian reported yesterday. The weekly supplement, called Middle East with Reuters, can be found every Thursday in the IHT's Middle East print editions.

The inaugural four-page issue of the weekly supplement will feature dedicated regional news, business, opinion and culture coverage from IHT, The New York Times and Reuters correspondents, while focusing on emerging trends and themes throughout the region, according to the press release posted on AFXNews.com today. This weekly issue is meant to complement the current coverage of the Middle East with analysis of the daily newspaper and authoritative world reporting.

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"The joint launch emphasises the way in which large media organisations are now prepared to team up in order to reach wider audiences," MediaGuardian pointed out. The weekly supplement will draw on the coverage of more than 200 Reuters journalists covering the Middle East at local and international level.

"We are excited to be expanding our collaboration with Reuters to provide even more analysis and fresh insight for our readers in the Middle East," Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, publisher of the IHT, stated in the press release. "There is a thirst here for the IHT's brand of high quality, independent journalism as reflected in our growing circulation numbers and the expansion of our operation for example, our new regional headquarters in Dubai."

The weekly supplement will be printed by IHT at Kuwait City, Doha, Cairo, Dubai and Istanbul, and circulated throughout Gulf, Egypt and Turkey, according to the press release.