If you have a good command over English then you have a chance of landing up a job from a newspaper based in U.S. A number of companies based in U.S are now looking forward to outsource some of their editing jobs to India and other developing countries. Already India has seen certain kinds of business reporting and data entry jobs being outsourced to it.
With content outsourcing industry billed at $2.5 billion per year it is expected that India would be achieve a turnover of ten billion rupees. Even the recent industry analysis has pointed out that the newspaper industry of developed countries is looking forward to outsource some of them core and non core functions to developing countries such as India due to cost factors.
Though this has started to take place but I don’t think that American readers might be comfortable with the concept of Indians editing their newspapers. Surely the acceptance will be difficult at first but probably they too would have to bow to the cost pressures being faced by the U.S newspapers.
Via rediff
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Gautam you have raised great concern by popping up the question that will Americans accept Indian editors for their own newspapers. The outsourcing of newspaper services is quite different from data entry and BPO services.
To edit news one must be aquatinted with the culture, norms, state of affairs and should have fundamental understanding of that particular country. Do you think Indians just by sitting in India would be able to bring out the basic views, lying behind the news?