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Outsourcing the News--The Future of American Newspapers?

Submitted by Fern R on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 10:53am

The Orange County Register (the newspaper of note in Orange County, CA) has announced that it will be outsourcing the copy editing of some of its articles to...you guessed it, India.

Mindworks' Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and provides "high-quality editorial and design services to global media firms ... using top-end journalistic and design talent in India."

Editors at Mindworks will work five shifts a week for one month, performing layout for the community paper and editing some stories in the flagship Register, Fabris said. Staffing at the company will not be affected, he said.

Fabris did not specify which community newspaper would be laid out by Indian designers.

The OC Register has been having a rough time of it, not unlike other newspapers and dinosaur media sources. The Register's problem is definitely not an ill perceived media bias as the paper's libertarian/conservative bent matches the political persuasion of most of Orange County (the OC GOP touts the OC as the most Republican county in the country).

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, although it is decidedly bad news for recent Journalism and English graduates. Welcome to the new job market guys!

Some of the McClatchy papers

Some of the McClatchy papers beat 'em to it in outsourcing to the same provider, I see.

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