Comments on: Outsource your reporting?

By: Liz Colville

Liz Colville — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:33:49 +0000

There was a lot of good discussion about this last year, when Pasadena Now started all this. Info Week's Rob Preston talks and links here. What's interesting is the NY Times report about how Indian outsourcing is suffering because so many of the firms rely on Wall Street for work. My suspicion is that other industries--publishing included--will start to recruit more foreign workers, starting during the recession.

By: Jason Preston

Jason Preston — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:26:55 +0000

Nisha – I think that it will be a shortlived trend, journalism is on some level a “creative” work, and creativity-based jobs are probably going to be the most secure going forward. Check out Lateral Action for more good thoughts on that topic.

Paul – yeah, it’s a lot cheaper. It’s also unsustainable, but you know that

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Throwing tomatoes, outsourcing journalism « TV on Your PC Roundup — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:08:26 +0000

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By: Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:04:20 +0000

Uh, wouldn't it be cheaper and make a hell of a lot more sense to just let interns do the work for free?

By: Nisha

Nisha — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:58:37 +0000

Wow…you know things are really bad when even journalism can get outsourced.