Globe Reruns NYT Article with No Comment or Credit and a Different Dateline

January 8, 2009, New York Times: Moving From Team Sport to Lifelong Fitness. January 11, 2009 (same day a version of the NYT article ran in print), Boston Globe: Moving From Team Sport to Lifelong Fitness. Same writer, same city (decidedly not in Massachusetts), different date, same story. Is this a sign the Times Co is ditching the Globe and/or merging the papers into one behemoth, or that the Globe is desperate for content?

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Boston.com (not the Boston Globe) has been running New York Times travel, health, and education content for about five years or so. I don't have time to look for the earliest possible example, but one that I could quickly find from a few years ago is Patterns: If It Takes a Long Time, It May Be a Boy.

It is also clearly marked as being a New York Times article with the Times logo next to the headline. The same way that Boston.com differentiates AP content with an AP Logo, Reuters, Bang Showbiz, Fodors, or any of their content providers.

What made you think that this was something new or noteworthy?

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Also, both articles seem to have the dateline West Babylon (although the formatting seems screwed up for both of them.) They do seem to have different publication dates though. Did you confuse the dateline (usually the location the story was published from. See the AP">http://www.bu.edu/com/writingprgm/ap_styleguide1.pdf">AP Style Guide) for the publication date?

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