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Outsourcing Journalism

Like other processes in business, editorial jobs like journalism are also being outsourced. California has recruited journalists in India to report what's happening in Pasadena, a city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles. The happenings of Pasadena City Council will be covered by these two reporters. California's relevant government documents and meetings will be available on the Internet. All the meetings and interviews will be recorded and photographed and sent to India through email by publication's staff in Pasadena. The journalists in India can even watch these events live on internet. Then reporters will be writing their articles and sending them through mails.
The official language of the articles will be English. These reporters will write twelve news articles (500 words) and two articles (700 words) per week for the website pasadenanow.com. It is an online newspaper from California. The website is visited by 45,000 news readers every month.

In a similar manner, Reuters has already outsourced a few of its operations to Bangalore (India). The outsourcing company in Bangalore reports for the global news agency. So this is not the first time journalism is outsourced.

The advantages of outsourcing journalism are:
  • Talented reporters: One can find talented journalists outside home country at economical rates.
  • Time zone advantage: Difference in time zones is also an advantage. Any incident can be covered at that instant itself, irrespective of what the time is.
  • Low wages: Outsourcing work at low wages is and easy way to reduce the expenses.
  • Quality Journalism
But there is much opposition to the idea of outsourcing of Journalism - How authenticated is the news? How much correct is the reporting of the person who is miles away and who has not even witnessed the event? Many questions like these are arising on this trend of 'long distance journalism'.

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