A new source for offshore outsourcing
Sreenath Sreenivasan, an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, has set up an ousourcing page with tons of links. Go check it out and see which fact/story you think is the most interesting. My winner is this story by Sreenivasan about what piqued media interest in the offshoring phenomenon: [A]part from tech and ...
Sreenath Sreenivasan, an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, has set up an ousourcing page with tons of links. Go check it out and see which fact/story you think is the most interesting. My winner is this story by Sreenivasan about what piqued media interest in the offshoring phenomenon:
Sreenath Sreenivasan, an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, has set up an ousourcing page with tons of links. Go check it out and see which fact/story you think is the most interesting. My winner is this story by Sreenivasan about what piqued media interest in the offshoring phenomenon:
[A]part from tech and business reporters, most folks I spoke to had little interest in the [outsourcing] story, presuming this was just like other movements of jobs overseas, such as, say, manufacturing to China…. Everything changed Feb. 9, 2004, thanks to small items in The New York Times (by media reporter Jacques Steinberg) and on the AP wire. Reuters was going to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to cover announcements from U.S. companies (none replacing existing employees elsewhere, Reuters said). This served as a wake-up call to journalists who had had no interest in the topic of jobs moving overseas. I immediately started getting e-mail messages and phone calls from people whose attention I’d been trying to get. Nothing like the prospect of our own necks being on the line to make us listen. Gee, if I spend most of my day “reporting” by using the phone and the Internet, couldn’t someone who is paid one-tenth of my salary easily do this job?
Alas, this confirms what I wrote here about the Reuters story. This piece of information is also interesting:
About 10 percent of the dues-paying members of the ITPAA, the main anti-outsourcing group in the U.S. are Indian-Americans.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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