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Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

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When Reuters did this 6 years ago, we all laughed at them. “Want curry with that?” Now respected American daily The Orange County Register has begun a test using a New Delhi firm for editing tasks. From BusinessWeek: Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register. Mindworks’ Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and provides “high-quality…

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Media Bias is Us

Media Bias is Us

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Read the following statement: The media is utterly biased.  Obviously biased sources like (choose one: Fox News | The New York Times) spout a constant stream of propaganda from (choose one: the dastardly Republicans | the evil Democrats | our Alien Overlords) which is meant to deceive us from the truth. The problem we face today is that the way in which we get our news is fundementally changing.   Instead of getting a cross section of the news that someone…

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CBS Talks About Outsourcing Reporting to CNN

CBS Talks About Outsourcing Reporting to CNN

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This could be the beginning of the end for primary source news. Actually Reuters experimented by moving many editorial positions to India a couple years ago. In this case, for CBS to basically give up and consider hiring CNN to do the work means yet another hard blow to the news industry. I’ve got more coming up tomorrow on this issue (at least tangentally) but for now, I’ll just say this: when we remove the primary sources of news, we…

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