Journalist jobs shipped overseas

Posted by Allie Judson on November 20, 2006 at 12:40 PM

Journalists are directly being affected by the newest newsroom trend, outsourcing. Some newspapers have been sending writing and editing jobs overseas to countries like Singapore and India to lower production costs.

After surveying 350 newsrooms for a July study, The World Association of Newspapers concluded "outsourcing plays a major part in the newspaper industry of today." Editors also expected to continue to out-source at higher volumes in the future.

There are different benefits and disadvantages for newspapers sending jobs overseas. Reuters, a financial news service, has seen both positives and negative from its out-sourcing. The company, who employs 340 employees in Bangalore, India write about U.S. business trends, has actually increased jobs in their New York Office since opening the India branch. However, employees are still unsatisfied wondering how journalists can gain prospective so far away.

Though the job movement seems to be working now, some are skeptical that it will continue. Angry employees and Newspaper Guild of New York members ran an add in the Wall Street Journal picturing businessman Warren Buffett with an incorrect caption, to make a point of what mistakes are likely to happen in the overseas market that is unconnected to the audience.

Source:The International Herald Tribune

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