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Herald Outsourcing*

10:31 AM, January 8, 2008

Newspapers & Technology reports that The Miami Herald is planning to outsource "some of its copy editing and page layout design work to Mindworks, a prepress production firm based in New Delhi, India." The company will oversee a weekly section of Broward County community news and other specialty advertising sections.

Wow. First I've heard of actual editorial design work being outsourced.

Update: I had previously linked to E&P, but it appears the report initiated with News & Tech, so I've changed the link. Thanks, Chuck!

Update 2:Robb points out this was an AP story on Dec. 27, noted, with the Herald memo, on Visual Editors. Hmm, trying to drop the bad news turd unnoticed in the middle of a holiday week. Where would a newspaper editor learn such a thing?

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UPDATE No.2: This was an AP story on 27 December according to Joseph Mountain. who also shared with us the memo to Herald employees.

http://www.visualeditors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6941

Posted by: Robb Montgomery at January 8, 2008 5:59 PM

Corporations will do anything to save a few bucks - even if that means firing off their employees and sending all of their jobs overseas. Business without a conscience.

Newspaper Industry: Circling the Drain.

Posted by: ChrisK at January 8, 2008 7:44 PM

The Kansas City Star (another McClatchy paper) is also testing outsourcing Ad Services to India.

Posted by: M. at January 9, 2008 2:42 PM

My pre-press job was outsourced by Gannett to India this week. Watch out for 2AdPro. They'll steal your job too....

Posted by: MarkRHuffer at January 10, 2008 11:51 PM

FYI

The Miami Herald is not the first.

Independent Newspapers whose stable includes, The Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Evening Herald outsourced all sub-editing and some layout to three separate companies. One outsource firm operates out of France, one is located in the UK and one is across the river Liffey in the same city (Dublin).

Bad news for newspapers.

Posted by: val at January 11, 2008 7:11 AM

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