Category Archives: outsourcing

Media Money: The future of newspapers: Metro with knobs on (and a hiring spree at Thomson Reuters)

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Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously and start interacting with their readers –- properly –- might be a bit of a challenge."

Local newsgathering outsourced to India

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The academic literature on globalisation has long predicted that information technology would alllow white-collar back-office jobs to be outsourced to low-wage economies. Examples of legal, accountancy, software development tasks have been around for years. ‘You’re on my list, you journalists,” Princeton economist Alan Blinder told the Telegraph’s Edmund Conway earlier this week, discussing a list of [...]