Newspaper Jobs on the Move -- Over the Ocean
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Newspaper Ad Jobs Going Straight To India [Media]
Published 5/6/2008 by Hamilton Nolan at Gawker
... , although that is still a relative rarity. More common—and more threatening, if you happen to be a US newspaper employee—is the large-scale outsourcing of advertising department work. People in India can assemble newspaper ads just as well as people here, and "many sources agreed that a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that metro newspapers can realize a savings of about $500,000 a year when ad production work is offshored." ...
Alert Sam Zell: Newspapers Will Keep You Alive
Published 5/6/2008 by david at Jossip
... Newspapers may be cash-losing endeavors, and they may be exporting jobs over to India, but they save lives! If everyone were like you and relied on the Internet to get their news for free, would there be ...

