'OC Register' Outsourcing Some Editing to India

[OhioChick]

Published: June 24, 2008 10:35 PM ET

SAN LUIS OBISPO An Indian company will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday.

Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register.

Mindworks' Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and describes its work as providing "high-quality editorial and design services to global media firms ... using top-end journalistic and design talent in India."

Editors at Mindworks will work five shifts a week for one month, performing layout for the community paper and editing on some stories in the flagship Register, Fabris said. Staffing at the company will not be affected, he said.

Fabris did not specify which community newspaper would be laid out by Indian designers.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003820264

[Blue_Tires]

1. not the paper owned by "Freedom Communications?"

the hardcore pseudo-libertarians?

lolz