Episode 182 • • 1:40:01 - 1:41:41
182: Magnets In Space
News Outsourcing, Reuters Bangalore, Call Center Journalism
Reuters has reportedly outsourced a significant portion of its financial journalism and back-end technology to Bangalore, India. Journalists in India now cover thousands of medium-sized firms in New York using the internet and email. The hosts characterize this as "call center journalism," where the news is treated as a commodity business rather than active reporting.