Here’s a fascinating piece on the economics of page views and why the cost-effectiveness of original reporting is being lost to the Internet. It includes a link to a NYT story about AP’s plan to track the use of its original work on the web.

For as long as I worked at the Courant (a brief tick in the paper’s 235-year life), Hartford stories have carried no datelines. The journalistic assumption was that if the Hartford Courant didn’t say SOUTH WINDSOR or WINSTED specifically, it was referring to its home city. Well, those days are over. (At least one eagle-eyed [...]