Links for following the Pasadena Now discussion online
May 12th, 2007 by Jill
Local links have asterisks.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
- Associated Press article by Justin Pritchard: Calif. Web Site Outsources Reporting
- Topix: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed
- Peoria Pundits: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed
- The Foothill Cities Blog*: PasadenaNow Outsources Local News Coverage (includes the text of the Bangalore Craigslist ad)
- Editors’ Corner*: Local coverage from afar
- LA Observed: Pasadena News Site Outsources to India
- Ed Driscoll.com: You can’t make this stuff up
- Pasadena Star News*: The news coming from afar
- Cincom Smalltalk: Dumb and Dumber
- Reason Magazine - Hit & Run: Outsourcing to India: Now It’s a Tragedy
Friday, May 11, 2007
- Journalism and the World: I’m not the only one looking to hire from India
- Journalism.co.uk: Local news reporting outsourced to India
- Los Angeles Times: Local news reporting outsourced to India
- Neil Sanderson: Outsourcing journalism to cut costs
- West Coast Grrly Blather*: Pasadena Weekly
- Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media Blog: Outsourced Journalism
- The Doc Searls Weblog: Virtual is free. Being there costs ya.
- The Curious Capitalist: The Indian labor arbitrage opportunity is shrinking fast
- mathewingram.com/work: Covering Pasadena from 9,000 miles away
- Not as Much Fun in Real Life: Life Imitates Art
- Queenkv’s Brainpickings: Outsourcing the News: Hiring reporters in India to cover Pasadena, CA
- Editor’s Corner*: Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star News editor, gets a couple of chuckles out of me…
- The Huffington Post Eat the Press: India to U.S. Media: “We in Ur Webz, Replacin Ur Punditz!”
- The Atlantic Online, Matthew Yglesias: Uh-Oh
- Under the Dome*: Namaskar
- FP Passport: Local Pasadena news written by … journalists in India
- Lost Remote TV Blog: Hyperlocal site outsourcing news coverage to India
- LAist: Pasadena Now Outsources Newswriting From India
- Mobile Blog - InformationWeek: My Cousin In Mumbai Could Have Written That
- Miss Havisham’s Tea Party*: Journalistic Objectivity May Be An Indian Thing
- darleeneisms: Reporting live on Pasadena, from India
- Common Sense Journalism: Mumbai calling …
- Reuters: It’s a long way to Pasadena
- USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Robert Niles*: Should publishers outsource journalism?
- Recovering Journalist: Far-Outsourcing
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: All-out outsourcing
- Marginal Revolution: Outsourcing markets in everything
- AHN: Pasadena Paper Outsources Community Journalism To India
- Poynter Online - Romenesko: Plan to have reporters in India cover Pasadena called “nutty”
- Writing, Reading and More, Oh My!: Outsourcing run amok
- Newsweek Business: Exporting—and Reimporting—the News: A small California publication is outsourcing its local news coverage—to India. How it plans to cover city-council meetings from afar, and why local journalists are unimpressed.
- The Foothill Cities Blog*: More on the Pasadena-India Connection
- Blue Crab Boulevard: Live From
PasadenaBangaloreMumbaiWherever - Alberta Spectator: Werner Patels: Taking things too far
- TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: Outsourcing Me?
- City Comforts: Distance sometimes provides objectivity
- Medialoper: Medialoper’s Coverage of The News of India From Pasadena: May 11, 2007
- Daily Kos: Outsourcing journalism jobs to India
- For the Record: WTF???!!!!!!
- NPR: Pasadena Paper May Outsource ‘Local’ Coverage
- Medill Media Watch: Outsourcing news
- Sin City: Giving Thanks for Stupidity
- Blabbing Mike’s News Blab: Outsourcing local news? … It might work!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
- spill: monument quiet
- BPO Tiger: US newspaper Pasadena.com outsources local journalism jobs to India
- iowas newz liter: I am thinking
- Progressive Gold: Watch Out, Joe Klein…
- Guardian Unlimited: On the news beat in Mumbai, California
- deepikaglobal.com: India-based journalists wanted for US city reporting
- Wordblog: Local reporting goes international
- The Emirates Economist: Outsourcing the reporting of local politics
- The Independent Journalist: Outsourcing Freelance Work to India
- Erik Sherman’s WriterBiz: Indian Outsourcing Teaches Business Lessons
- iLind.net: Saturday/Outsourcing, Case, and Kaaawa dogs
- Kishore Budha: Where is South Asian media headed?: Outsourced to India — writing
- TechWag: Your Home Town paper, Written in India
- Old Lar Says: Reporting from Pasadena via India
- BuzzMachine: Sweetheart, get me a rewrite… in Bangalore
- Notes from a Teacher: (Far) outsourcing
- SocraticGadfly: Journalism is now being outsourced to India
- victoria_lane: Outlandish Outsourcing
- Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post at a Time: Outsourcing Journalism - Maybe They’ll Get It Now
Sunday, May 13, 2007
- Pasadena Pundit*: The News Coming Ajar (in Pasquinadena**)
- Lost Remote TV Blog: Offshoring journalism: A job list
- Claremont Insider*: Sunday Observations
- Battlepanda: Globalization comes to the news room
- Brad Linder’s digital home: Offshoring journalism
- The John Birch Society: Is Journalism the New Wave of Outsourcing?
- Unbound Edition: Outsourcing Journalism
- urbanwriter: decisions, decisions, decisions
- MEGO: When they outsource your job, who writes the article about it?
- Crooks and Liars: This Might be Taking Outsourcing Too Far
- Connecticut Local Politics: Why Local Blogging Matters
- New Pairodimes: Reporting from Bangalore on the Rose Bowl Parade
- Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: The new frontrunner for “worst idea…
- Chico Enterprise Record: Maybe there is a need for outsourcing
- Bullfight: Outsourced Editor
- Watching Those we Chose: In the Era of Citizen Journalism, James Macpherson wants to Outsource Reporting to India?
- Media Nation: Not-so-local news
- Logical Extreme: A correction
- The Huffington Post | The Blog | Larry Arnstein: Your City Council, Direct from Bangalore
- Finding What Media do now: The News is Flat
- Below the Fold: Outsourcing Local News: The Joke is On Us
Monday, May 14, 2007
- Hindustan Times: Think local but act global
- The Foothill Cities Blog*: The India Incident: Macpherson responds
- Claremont Insider*: Offshore News
- Freakonomics Blog: Outsourcing Journalism?
- C.N. Le: Outsourcing Local New Reporting
- The Intangible Economy: Offshoring local news
- The Hell it Can’t: Soon, we will outsource, outsourcing…
- Oh Well: A Commentary on News and Politics
- Notes from Hemingway’s Lounge: Hope Papa H. Ain’t Rolling Over…
- Mark Maynard: outsourcing local reporting to india
- SAJAforum: Outsourcing: Newspaper Outsources Articles to India
- Associated Press article by Justin Pritchard: Local news Website postpones coverage by reporters in India
- Editors Weblog: US: outsourcing local news
- Cape Cod Today Media Watch: Now this is a truly wretched idea
- The Blog Brief: Outsourcing hits journalists
- followthemedia.com: Covering Pasadena, California, from India? And why not?
- STLtoday: It may be time for journalists to fret about outsourcing
- investigativeblog.net: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall May 13, 2007 08:07 AM
- cyberbrains: The virtual reporter
- City Lights: Yeah, but they’ll still need paperboys
- mrontemp: Appreciating Irony and Sparking Discussion
- FARK.com: The latest job class being outsourced to India: The hometown newspaper’s local beat reporter
- The Hits Just Keep On Comin’: Offshore to Bangalore
- Vertigo is the temptation to jump: Miscellany
- cbs2.com: Let’s Blog: Kent Shocknek: Will You Be Outsourced?
- The Eclectic Chapbook: Outsourcing - Smoke and Mirrors
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
- The Sun Chronicle Online: Reilly: Bad news for news coverage
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) - Asia: Outsourcing: A few surprise updates
- Garamchai.Com … for the desi in pardes: Offshoring no longer news: Offshoring of Newspapers makes news
- The American Lady: Outsourcing, or Out of Touch
- Tim Worstall: Goldman Sachs and Deepak Lal
- Claremont Insider*: News of Claremont from India
- The Foothill Cities Blog*: Reporting City Council Meetings
- The Huffington Post | The Blog | Barbara Ehrenreich: Your Local News: Dateline Delhi
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
- CITIZEN-TIMES.com: The outsourcing of news coverage plows into a new frontier
Thursday, May 17, 2007
- Pasadena Star News*: Outsourcing stories to India? Get used to it
- The Curious Capitalist: Those highly paid Indians again
- Pasadena Weekly*: Bad news for news
Friday, May 18, 2007
- Chicago Tribune: Real reporting makes a world of difference
- Los Angeles Times: Nasty downside of globalization can be avoided
Saturday, May 19, 2007
- The Eclectic Chapbook: Pasadena via curry wire
- Media Relations & SEO PR Blog: Outsourcing Journalism
Sunday, May 20, 2007
- San Francisco Chronicle: Outsourcing to India for reporters: Web site to cover Pasadena council news from overseas
- Jackson Hole Star Tribune: Journalists without borders
James Macpherson in his own words
- In response to ELP* post “I think they’re adding writers…”
- The Foothill Cities Blog*: The India Incident: Macpherson Responds
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May 14, 2007: Here’s a link to all of the posts I’ve made about Pasadena Now, too. I support what Pasadena Now is doing. I don’t support replacing local journalists with writers in another country, but adding writers to supplement the city council coverage we have now using videos and documents available online (like Pasadena Now is doing) seems like it could be a good thing for our community. I don’t think it could hurt. Adding someone to write articles based on interviews also seems like an interesting idea; I’m curious about how it will work out.
Pasadena Now is an online-only news site. Our other two main local news sources are Pasadena Star News and Pasadena Weekly, both of which publish online as well as in print and both of which are larger organizations.
Before this story broke, I met James Macpherson (the publisher of Pasadena Now) twice in person, and we also exchanged emails about our shared interest in using the internet for community building in Pasadena. He has used a couple of my photographs for Pasadena Now stories (for free), and he has also published work by other local bloggers. From my perspective he’s a neighbor and he seems like a nice guy. I like him and I like Pasadena Now.
All news outlets have used the same agency story. So, it really is about the globalisation of news!!! i.e., one point of view is replicated in over 200 news sites. Now, isn’t that hegemonic????
Yes, I’m finding it very disturbing! This is one of the few stories I’ve followed in extreme depth, and the repetition of the same story by the same writer all over the place with slight changes is making me trust traditional news sources less. There’s a lot of repetition without a lot of thought or inquiry.
Jill, heres a nice FYI article
http://www.lostremote.com/2007/05/13/offshoring-journalism-a-job-list/
Thanks, /pd!
[...] cartoon at Gaping Void today made me think about all the uproar online about James Macpherson of Pasadena Now’s hiring of Indian writers to report on Pasadena city [...]
Wow, impressive list, Jill. I hadn’t seen a tenth of those links, and we’ve obviously been very interested in the story. Thanks for compiling the list and for your comments over at the FC.
The Colbert Report just made fun of this tonight.
Gosh…Pasadena Star News is sure one insecure website…”Gandhi…Shirtless..noble…n cheap”….sure he must be…but atleast he’s not like ur great politicians who can think of nothing but getting between their colleagues legs..!!!