Journalism-the New Addition

Initially, outsourcing use to claim manufacturing jobs, and then hit services such as technical support, airline reservations and tax preparation. Now the next in line is local journalism.

James, the editor and the publisher of the Web site pasadenanow.com, identified that it sounds bizarre to have journalists in India covering news in and outside Los Angeles. He said “The idea to him makes the business sense because of India’s lower labor costs”. Apart from that, work can be done as far as it can be watched over the Internet. He further adds that, "It could be a better option to augment the quality of journalism on the local level without spending any expense which is considered to be a grave problem for local publications”

All are not giving consent on this take that a journalist from India can accurately report on issues of local government and other events. According to their notion, a journalist can’t report on a local matter or an any other local issues, without knowing or understanding the original cultural, moral, or political tones which ultimately creates such news.

According to California journalism professor who is also a resident of Pasadena, barely few people would vest their trust on such reporting by people who do not know the institutions, and are not even here physically to witness the proceedings

A UCLA professor of technology and strategy who outsource copy editing and graphics work to Indian businesses, states it is a shaky business proposition. He move forward mentioning his opinion that "if it is all about sophisticated reporting, then Macpherson could end up spending length of time in editing than the labor savings.

This is not for the first time media jobs are outsourced to India. The British news agency Reuters runs an operation in Bangalore, the silicon city of India that churns out Wall Street stories based on news releases.

Macpherson appears to be the first to try outsourcing journalism work that was traditionally been done by reporters who walk the streets. He said “His Web site, which he runs out of his house, get about 45,000 unique readers per month but it is not yet yielding beneficial results. After hiring these journalist, he wanted them to broaden pasadenanow.coms content from news releases and event listings to analyses of issues before the council, and perhaps eventually to investigative reports.

An yearly outlay of $20,800 for the two of a kind, which is not a bad earning for an Indian journalist and cheap by U.S. standards, each one had to produces 15 weekly piece of writing.

Pasadena city spokeswoman Ann Erdman said that if the articles are well-edited, than the coverage from the distance which is far cry shouldn’t create any problem. Anyhow, she said, "Local government is unquestionably not in the practice of uttering to the local business who they can take into the service and where those staff should reside."

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