Welcome to SPJ Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Friday, May 11, 2007 - Posts

Friday, May 11, 2007 10:24 AM

I'm not the only one looking to hire from India

The AP ran this story yesterday --  Calif. Web site outsources reporting -- about a California online newspaper hiring reporters in India to cover local news in Pasadena. Here's a writeup of the story from Journalism.co.uk: Local news reporting outsourced
posted by MariaTrombly | 0 Comments
Friday, May 11, 2007 7:39 AM

Hiring American reporters versus Chinese and Indian

I've managed journalists from pretty much everywhere -- the US, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Central Asia, and, now, India and China.In my experience, the differences between individual reporters far outweight the differences between countries. In
posted by MariaTrombly | 2 Comments
Friday, May 11, 2007 4:57 AM

Complaining about pay rates for freelance reporting and photography

Last night at our regular drinking get-together at Cotton's Bar, about half-a-dozen of us expat journalists got together and complained about falling rates. Well, we also had a furious argument about whether the Economist was a real news magazine or not
posted by MariaTrombly | 0 Comments