Outsourcing Journalism
Check out Fred Ritchin’s blog post from today here for his account on the possible future of journalism.
Excerpt:
Perhaps the most surprising, fantastical piece I have read recently about the future of the news business involves Pasadena Now, a daily online journal “covering” Pasadena, California. James Macpherson, its editor and publisher, recently fired his entire staff of 7 employees (each earning between $600 and $800 weekly) and replaced them with part-time freelance reporters in India working from some 8,000 miles away. He pays them the paltry sum of $7.50 per thousand words.
Anyone think this could actually catch on?
