The Know More Media outsourcing blogger, BPO Tiger, just passed along a disturbing bit of information. There's no easy way to say it, I think we should just quote straight from the source:
"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 ... But the momentum for "offshoring" to other countries or outsourcing locally is accelerating as newspapers small and large seek ways to reduce costs."
Everybody is freaked out. Besides losing jobs, this industrialized writing hurts fledgling writers like you and me.
We are riding this Internet wave, trying to adapt to the hyperactive posting and low-budget world of online publishing. Are we unwittingly preparing ourselves to be outsourced, reducing our jobs to simple tasks that anybody can replicate? What do you think?
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