Journalist's career wiped by The New York Times

thefickler writes: Reading about Peter Wayner and his problems with book piracy, reminded me of another writer Thomas Crampton, who has the opposite problem — a lot of his work has been wiped from the Internet. Thomas Crampton has worked for the New York Times (NYT) and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) for about a decade, but when the websites of both newspapers were merged two months, a lot of Crampton's work disappeared into the ether — much to the Crampton's horror. Links to the old stories are simply hitting generic pages. Crampton wrote a letter to Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, pleading for his work to be put back online. But here's the hilarious part, according to one analysis, the NYT is throwing away money — at least $100,000 every month the links are broken.