By Dane Carlson on February 10, 2004 in Ideas
Who’s job is safe?
NY Times: “Rueters told its editorial employees in an electronic posting late last week that it planned to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to do basic financial reporting on 3,000 small to medium-size American companies. ‘It’s a place where you can get people who understand English, understand financial statements, understand journalism and who are educated to a very high standard and eager to do this kind of work,’ David Schlesinger, global managing editor of Reuters, said in a telephone interview. They are also relatively inexpensive, he added.”