Comments on: Outsourcing the News: Hiring reporters in India to cover Pasadena, CA.

By: Pasadena Now - following the discussion online « Eye Level Pasadena

Pasadena Now - following the discussion online « Eye Level Pasadena — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:54:02 +0000

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[...] Associated Press article by Justin Pritchard: Calif. Web Site Outsources Reporting Topix: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed Peoria Pundits: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed Foothill Cities*: PasadenaNow Outsources Local News Coverage (includes the text of the Bangalore Craigslist ad) Editors’ Corner*: Local coverage from afar LA Observed: Pasadena News Site Outsources to India Journalism and the World: I’m not the only one looking to hire from India Journalism.co.uk: Local news reporting outsourced to India Ed Driscoll.com: You can’t make this stuff up latimes.com: Local news reporting outsourced to India pasadenastarnews.com*: The news coming from afar Cincom Smalltalk: Dumb and Dumber Neil Sanderson: Outsourcing journalism to cut costs West Coast Grrly Blather*: Pasadena Weekly Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media Blog: Outsourced Journalism The Doc Searls Weblog: Virtual is free. Being there costs ya. The Curious Capitalist: The Indian labor arbitrage opportunity is shrinking fast Reason Magazine – Hit & Run: Outsourcing to India: Now It’s a Tragedy mathewingram.com/work: Covering Pasadena from 9,000 miles away Not as Much Fun in Real Life: Life Imitates Art Queenkv’s Brainpickings: Outsourcing the News: Hiring reporters in India to cover Pasadena, CA Editor’s Corner*: Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star News editor, gets a couple of chuckles out of me… The Huffington Post Eat the Press: India to U.S. Media: “We in Ur Webz, Replacin Ur Punditz!” The Atlantic Online, Matthew Yglesias: Uh-Oh Under the Dome*: Namaskar FP Passport: Local Pasadena news written by … journalists in India Lost Remote TV Blog: Hyperlocal site outsourcing news coverage to India LAist: Pasadena Now Outsources Newswriting From India spill: monument quiet Mobile Blog – InformationWeek: My Cousin In Mumbai Could Have Written That Miss Havisham’s Tea Party*: Journalistic Objectivity May Be An Indian Thing [...]

By: rdv

rdv — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:56:55 +0000

I worked here in SOCAL and get calls from vendors, magazines, and my first instinct is to shut them off(courteously) because I am usually busy.

But when i recognized their accents ( sometimes hardly recognizable), I would pick up that they are from Manila, and just trying to make a living. then I usually respond to their questions and sometimes talk to them in Tagalog.

This is the ongoing trend now, to keep up with the competition, times are tough….

But in this case, I am with you, hope this will not continue..for the sake of Journalism.

By: rdv

rdv — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:48:02 +0000

I get a lot of solitication

By: Centinel

Centinel — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:52:39 +0000

We’re a Pasadena based local blog and we commented on the story yesterday (we got picked up by LA Observed and some others). It’s a proposition that seems ridiculous on the face of it…and still seems ridiculous, in some ways, when you take a closer look.

For a local take on outsourcing local news, check us here:

http://foothillcities.blogspot.com/2007/05/pasadenanow-outsources-local-news.html