Comments on: Offshoring journalism: A job list

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By: D C

D C — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:49:28 +0000

Nice?

Okay, let American journalists work in Mumbai then. Do they have a H1B program?

Worse, with America’s infrastructure sold out to the lowest bidder much the same way any desperate tart would, what’s going to happen to America?

And until the cost of living in America matches India’s, the wages being offered won’t allow Americans to live. Funny nobody’s mentioned that during this “globalization” fad…

By: Roman Sky

Roman Sky — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:57:23 +0000

Tons of downstream, high speed, data is 3/4 of the battle.
Down/up paths will work together seamlessly–agnostic of delivery method. Imagine if you could travel to Mars in 30 minutes, but it took you an hour to get back (like current down/up speeds)… Now, imagine you could travel to Mars in 5 minutes, but it still took you an hour to get back (that’s the spectrum + “wire, fiber, 3G/4G play”)… This is not theory–this is technology and biz modeling currently moving from the labs to the real world. Don’t lose that remote, just yet.

By: DougW

DougW — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:30:34 +0000

The same short sited corporate weasels who deny global warming exists will also deny the possibility of their own demise… why?

Everybody makes $10.00 per hours….

Hardly anybody can buy anything (even at Wal-Mart)

Businesses go broke, or stop buying advertising…

TV Stations news operations, networks go under

Outsourcing ends

By: !

Mon, 14 May 2007 23:48:23 +0000

17.

admittedly i don’t know the correct answer, but isn’t “that stick” only downstream capable?

By: Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:18:16 +0000

Here’s what will happen on a local basis.

Different organizations will email press releases and news items to an “account” offshore.
A 50cent an hour worker will repackage that information to a local website for publication.
Joe or Jane sixpack won’t know the difference and what will be lost will be the groundbreaking investigative journalism and the news will be whatever local officials and cops say that it is.

By: Roman Sky

Roman Sky — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:15:44 +0000

“When everyone knocks down their sticks in 20 years..” ??? IPTV or no IPTV, those sticks are big fat pipes delivering bits and bytes now and for a very long time… As bandwidth becomes more scarce, those broadcast data pipes and the associated spectrum allocations become all the more valuable as primary/secondary delivery technologies–if nothing else to offload what will become growing strains on wired, fibered and 3G/4G networks. Over the air data delivery is not going away, not being outsourced…nor will US government spectrum be managed from overseas. The sky is not falling. Rome is not burning.

By: Mike Wendling

Mike Wendling — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:07:52 +0000

One thing about journalism will never be outsourced - going out and getting the story. To do that, you have to be here (wherever ‘here’ is, San Antonio or London or Delhi).
Technical and low-skilled tasks could potentially be farmed out, and let’s hope that would free up more resources for people to go out and get stories. ‘Hope’ being the operative word.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:33:34 +0000

Outsourcing of talent has already taken place. Think Sinclair. That operation died, didn’t it? Beaming the weather talent in from afar, having a generic sports report, sprinkling in a few local sports stats, and then having an outsourced news anchor read his company produced propaganda with the local news blonde woman reading a few stories and closing the show with an animal themed kicker.

What we may see is just an AP-like consolidation of all the television operations……..at least on the gathering side. Newspapers will be done by 20 years time, too.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:24:36 +0000

I have worked for a company that has operations in Mumbai, the Phillipines, and some other outsourced locales.

It’s costing Americans a decent wage, but it does provide them for a measly one. I mostly worked with people who had been downsized and had to resort to making just under $10 an hour (these were people with degrees and a couple of decades of professional experience) and also worked with some who barely held a high school equivalency diploma, but they thought it was great because there was no place they could make “close to $10 an hour” for having to do nothing more than providing lame tech support. They just read off their manuals.

Outsourcing is MORE OF A DETRIMENT THAN TERRORISM in my opinion to millions more in this country. That statement might come across as outlandish to a lot of people, but seriously, outsourcing gets a very few rich and loads of people, Americans, get stiffed.

I refuse to ever purchase a Dell computer again because I used to have to speak with a foreigner when it went down. They always lied and said, “I am in Round Rock, TX.” BS. Lots and lots of companies use outsourced support staff.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:05:32 +0000

Ssshh!! Ssshh! Don’t even mention outsourcing. Don’t freak the college student out. I like to pretend that, in an eternity, when I get a B.A. in Journalism and a B.A. in Communications that I’ll be able to do something in the States and not, say, India…

By: Z

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:44:35 +0000

Sure, like anyone would take that job.

By: Safran

Safran — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:40:40 +0000

Horrible hairpieces. We could outsource those, easy.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:36:22 +0000

Can we outsource Nancy Grace to India?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:17:35 +0000

Let me also add that what I see happening is not outsourcing overseas, but outsourcing to people’s homes. There’s simply no reason for people to congregate to create and edit material when all of that can be done from home. We now routinely use the internet to produce and deliver HD material back and forth between New York and Los Angeles and yet we all gather here in LA to work on exactly the same type of Macs we have at home. The biggest barrier we experience is resistance from our IT people who resist opening our network to the internet!