MORE ON PASADENA'S NEWLY OUTSOURCED JOURNALISTS

The Pasadena newspaper's move to outsource news reporting to India continues to generate more buzz. Not including last week's news and blog entries, here are some feedbacks from different sources:

CNN.com - Story details

SFGate.com -

"James Macpherson couldn't afford local reporters to work for his community news Web site, Pasadena Now -- so he hired two of them who live in India."

Outsourcing news: What a cheap idea - Need I say more? :)

Outsourcing in Journalism - This one's from Harvard law.

More outsourcing on the way: blogger-

"Alan Mutter says to be prepared for more outsourcing at newspapers. Even after severance pay to current staff, a publisher stands to save money on that position about 12 months later by having an overseas employee do the work.:

In The Era of Citizen Journalism James Macpherson Wants to Outsource Reporting To India? -

"Bryce Nelson, a University of Southern California journalism professor and Pasadena resident thinks "Nobody in their right mind would trust the reporting of people who not only don't know the institutions but aren't even there to witness the even"