There’s a kerfuffle among Reuters staffers based in the U.S. after the agency announced they’ll be outsourcing more news production to Singapore and Toronto.
Note carefully the reasoning from global managing editor David Schlesinger:
Schlesinger also said he was offended by the [U.S.] guild’s suggestion – which the union has denied – that American journalists are superior to their foreign counterparts. The wire service remains committed to “on-the-ground reporting, but some stories can be done very well by telephone or by reading something on the Internet,” he said from India.
Does this mean Reuters stories or photo captions datelined ‘Gaza City’ might actually be produced, researched, or edited by a Google-happy “journalist” sitting at a PC in Singapore? That would explain a thing or two…
(Hat tip: BOTWT)
