Newspapers outsource editing to India
Don Day June 25th, 2008
The Orange County Register is shipping off some of the editing chores to folks in India. Workers at a New Dehli-based company will handle some copy-editing chores as well as some page layout tasks during a one month trial. Editors stress this won’t affect local decision making, or even affect staffing levels… for now.
10 Comments Add your own
1. Rob | June 25th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I once worked with a guy who wrote for a small weekly newspaper in Pasadena. He covered various beats - city council, crime, the usual suspects - like any other newspaper reporter only with one twist. He lived here in Washington and did all his reporting over the phone and through watching various civic meetings streamed live over the Internet.
I thought that was a strange case of telecommuting but outsourcing newspaper operations to India takes the cake.
2. tdc | June 25th, 2008 at 8:13 am
“did all his reporting over the phone”
my son is in nagoya japan studying language for the summer and just called me on my cell phone via skype.
less than .03 a minute for “skype out” minutes for calls from japan to grosse pointe seems like it might have a real impact on telecommunications providers.
3. tdc | June 25th, 2008 at 8:15 am
clear as a bell, too.
4. Rocker | June 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
WTF? how r dey gonna git peeple hu can spel and talk Inglish proper over dere likes we has hear?
5. John P. Wise | June 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Rocker, that actually looks on par with copy I’ve seen from several reporters/producers I’ve worked with over the years. Ya know, reel Amurican folk.
6. Anonymous | June 26th, 2008 at 2:45 am
The hapless Santa Monica native was in transit on a bicycle to his destination when upon arrival at the intersection they were stricken by a large lorry of the 4 wheel drive ethusiastic persausion. Witnesses state the incisent might have been quite tragic in the amount of carnage endured on the person. However all who witnessed the event say they were stupified to observe the appearance of Shiva to shield and restore the traveler to health and safety.
When queried, attending medic Dr. Rajeethanman A. P. Smithe expressed his astonishment and utter lack of understanding the intervention. He bowed and exhorted creation before re-entering his Mercedes, content that fate was indeed served well.
7. Anonymous | June 26th, 2008 at 2:46 am
The only think I was SPELLING WELL was the phony Hindi. It’s late and good nighr.
8. Bobby | June 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Why should any of us be surprised by this? Everything is being outsourced to that country, and just like all the others, it will be a crappy mess. Take a bow, newspaper industry, yet another nail in your death coffin.
9. Alyssa | June 26th, 2008 at 11:58 am
We have some international clients who don’t understand why we want to change their very literal English language ad copy with more idiomatic (American) English phrases.
I cant imagine how badly that might go with entire news articles.
10. Anonymous | June 27th, 2008 at 2:12 am
@ Alyssa–back at you from the lousy typist @6.
: ) Most incredulously so
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