outsourcing “journalism”
May 11th, 2007
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Article from latimes.com
James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200.
Good. Let me qualify. Good, if it means there will be fewer reporters being paid to take down minutes of meetings. One is hard-pressed to categorize these sorts of stories as “journalism” to begin with. I hope it means the Pasadena Now publisher will spend the liberated money to pay reporters to open closets, lift rugs, rake muck.
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On the fence about this issue.
It’s certainly good arrangement for the paper, who can pay half as much for the same service and good for the employee in India who can live well on that wage, but what happens to the young American journalist who doesn’t get the job or a start?
They move to Bangalore.
Or… they go to AP… Ha!!