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Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Orange County Register is laying off 110 by Friday.  We should remember that their parent company a few months ago launched a pilot program to outsource some editing to India, in addition to also sending some pages for pagination overseas as well.  A flat world indeed! OCR Publisher Terry Horne: “This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused…

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More on Newspaper Outsourcing

More on Newspaper Outsourcing

CNBC posted on the newspaper outsourcing issue yesterday, and noted that not only is copy editing going overseas for a trial, one of the OC Register’s parent companies papers is now sending pages to New Delhi for layout. Mindworks Global Media will copy edit some of the papers stories for a one-month trial starting next week. And a community newspaper owned by the O.C. Register’s parent company–it didn’t name which one–will outsource page layout to Mindworks, which is based outside…

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Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

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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