Outsourcing: Reuters to strengthen Bangalore operations

According to sify.com, "Reuters plans to strengthen its operations in Bangalore through recruitment of more journalists and carrying out more editorial activities over the next six months."We are locating a number of important editorial activities to this (Bangalore) team over the next six months," a Reuters spokesperson told Business Line. The spokesperson said that Reuters had earlier announced that 20 journalists would be recruited in Bangalore. It now expects to have around 40 journalists in place by the middle of 2005... He said the number of staffers for the company's data operations is expected to grow to 400 by the end of the year."

Source: sify.com. See also former mails related to outsourcing.