US journalists afraid their jobs will be outsourced

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.

The article cites a WAN global survey of about 350 newspaper bosses in Europe, Asia and the United States. They expected outsourcing to increase, although few were willing to farm out all of their editorial functions.

Part of the reason is that advertising revenues for print media is dropping and people are failing to buy hard copies of their news.

The article cites the outsourcing of the business pages of the UK's Daily Express to India as an example of what could happen in the US.

The article mentions that much of the work being taken by India is the 'crap hack' work. Editors do not see the point of forcing hacks to churn out the Women's Institute results when they could be camped outside some b list celeb's house waiting to see who she is shagging this week.

However, the US print media, whose hacks are usually highly pretentious and not to mention better paid than the rest of the world, are starting to panic that their gravy train could be hitting the buffers.

Gone will be the days that they could wax lyrical about themselves for ten paragraphs before telling the news if an Indian turns out to be better at finding a better angle from Bangalore.

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