Irish Independent, Evening Herald, Sunday Independent and Herald AM are some of the most respected newspapers of the world but rising costs are forcing them to follow the outsourcing route. This has irked the journalists and they have voted to reject this cost cutting arrangement. The newspaper had planned to outsource its sub editing work to a company set up by its two employees but now it may not become a reality.
They feel that in the long run outsourcing would affect the quality of work being undertaken at the newspaper besides costing their jobs. Media outsourcing has not been as popular as IT outsourcing and it has been generating criticism around the globe. The media fraternity feels that it will lead to loss of quality work besides taking away their jobs.
This may be true to some extent but newspapers are helpless and if they don’t opt for outsourcing they may face extinction as print media has been facing a lot of competition from electronic media of late.
Via irishexaminer
