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Why does the Economist republish its own articles on a different subdomain with a current dateline? This one is dated 27 March, but it has a link right at the
by jzwinck 10y ago
Why does the Economist republish its own articles on a different subdomain with a current dateline?
This one is dated 27 March, but it has a link right at the bottom to the original, from 5 September 2013: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-itself-1 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
- simonh 10y agoThey occasionally republish historical articles when they think they become relevant to current events. For example I think around the table me of the Brexit vote they published an article from the years Britain voted to join the EU. In this case the article is more an 'About Us' piece than news or commentary. I've seen it come up several time so I think it my actually be a permanent part of the site.