Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Wonder if they still support Globalism:
theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35829
US journalists afraid their jobs will be outsourced
A passage to India
By Nick Farrell: Monday 20 November 2006, 06:29
JOURNOS working for the US print media are steaming with righteous indignation as their bosses start outsourcing their jobs to India.
The International Herald Tribune fumed that there was a sudden rush of advertisements on MonsterIndia.com for hacks to write for US and UK print media in Mumbai.
And:
iht.com/articles/2006/11/19/ … source.php
Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists
The long arm of ‘offshoring’ reaches into the news industry
PARIS: The rush of job recruiting ads on MonsterIndia.com tells the story of the latest class of workers to watch their trade start migrating to another continent.
“Urgent requirement for business writers,” reads one ad looking for journalists to locate in Mumbai. “Should be willing to work in night shifts (UK shift).”
Another casts for English-speaking journalists in Bangalore with “experience in editing and writing for US/International Media.”
Remote-control journalism is the scornful term that unions use for the shift of newspaper jobs to low-cost countries like India or Singapore with fiber-optic connections transmitting information all around the world.
