Reuters Outsourcing Journalists

[gulfcoastliberal]

Ya think this will influence coverage regarding globalization/free-trade?

Reuters to outsource some business coverage to India


Feb. 9, 2004 | LONDON (AP) -- News and financial-data giant Reuters Group PLC on Monday said it will provide basic news coverage of some U.S. companies from a bureau to be established in Bangalore, India.

It will hire six journalists for the bureau, the company said. They will monitor announcements from 3,000 small and medium-sized U.S. companies.

The reporting roles in Bangalore are new positions and won't replace reporters elsewhere in the world, the company said.

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In a phenomenon known as offshoring, U.S. corporations are moving white-collar jobs to India and other Asian countries where labor is cheap. Most of the jobs have been in information technology, but several Wall Street banks announced last year that they were hiring financial analysts in India.

http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2004/02/09/reuters/index.html

[UpInArms]

1. well, we here at DU knew that this was

coming.

I'm just waiting for the new and improved version of the evening news to be piped in from Bangladore.

[54anickel]

7. I want this guy for TV anchor

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. This is great

Hope that this happens to more journalists. Perhaps then there will be more attention focused on the problem if it is happening to the people who are reporting it.

[vanityfair]

3. Amazing!

Maybe they will offshore all the media whores from Faux, ABC, CNN, NBC to India.

[Gin]

4. can we outsource politicians? There are a few useless ones that

can be replaced by a warm body anywhere....maybe then..we would get some action in favor of the little guy.

[Pale_Rider]

8. Also some useless CEOs and CIOs could be ...

... outsourced and off-shored for much cheaper than what our American bozos are being paid.

[Voltaire99]

5. And why not? US news 'droids are easily replaceable!

With US corporate news being reported by drones and dullards, it's easy to see how outsourcing these human widgets makes sense for the bean counters without posing any risk of diluting the product.

Corporate journalism -- a field closely related to shoe-shining, if less complicated and socially beneficial -- conditions US companies to expect constant flattery. You don't need a Columbia graduate for that.

Happily, this could improve our politics. A seed of hope for a revival of US liberalism lies in the outsourcing of our tech and financial services industries, bastions of conservatism and hyper-capitalism. Those values are only as popular as the rewards seeming to flow from them. Absent stock market pay-offs and, now, their very jobs, too, right wingers angry at betrayal by the duplicitous value system to which they've clung will soon go looking for political answers.

Liberalism stands ready to accept its latest refugees!

[mot78]

6. Maybe they can outsource Faux next

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