More editing, reporting outsourced to India--BusinessWeek

7/8/08, BusinessWeek.com: "In a squat, gray building in Noida, a leading outsourcing destination 15 miles from New Delhi, is the headquarters of Mindworks Global Media. Here, 90 young men and women peer into their computers,

• editing copy,

• designing and laying out pages, and

• even reporting over the phone.

Mindworks isn't a new publication. It's a company to which media groups in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.—including the Miami Herald and South China Morning Post—outsource work that journalists and copyeditors usually do....

• Some Western publishers do their outsourcing in-house—Thomson Reuters (TRI), for instance, has moved basic Wall Street reporting on U.S., European, and Gulf equities

• to a new bureau in Bangalore.

But other media companies prefer to outsource to the Indians directly. On June 24, Mindworks made global headlines when the

• Associated Press reported that the company had taken on copyediting and layout work for a couple of publications owned by the

• California media publishing group Orange County Register Communications."...

via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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