Outsourcing shadow overhanging newspapers
We’re all pretty familiar with the idea of call-centers for various industries being outsourced to Mumbai, or tech-support being done from County Cork in Ireland or wherever — but until recently, newspapers were relatively immune to such economic forces. That coule be changing, however, as this article in the International Herald-Tribune reports.
More and more news operations seem to be taking their cue from Reuters, which opened a news editing operation in Bangalore a couple of years ago and has rapidly expanded it, and later moved a photo-editing unit to Singapore. Says the story: “Wages and rents in Bangalore are less than one-fifth those of Western capitals. In Amhmedabad, 300 miles north of Mumbai, Hi-Tech Export offers a discounted rate for 40 hours of editing services starting at $359.”
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