Another sign of the times: Four of Chicago’s local TV stations have reached an agreement to share newsgathering resources, including video footage of “non-exclusive” events. According to the Chicago Tribune’s news blog, the move is a cost-cutting measure modeled after a similar agreement in Philadelphia.

Rather than send independent crews to shoot the same news conferences, sports events and other non-exclusive news, the local news service will dispatch a single crew to provide pooled raw video. What each competing outlet’s reporters, editors and producers do with the raw video is up to individual rival operations.