BusinessWeek reports that an Indian company, Mindworks Global Media, has been contracted to provide copy editing duties for The Orange County Register.  The New Delhi firm will also begin handling page layout for a community newspaper owned by the Register’s parent company, Orange County Register Communications. 

John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Orange County Register, commented: “In a time of rapid change at newspapers, we are exploring many ways to work efficiently while maintaining quality and improving local coverage.”

This outsourcing of white collar editorial jobs points to an interesting new benchmark in the global age.  ManufactureThis wonders what the newspaper editors who trumpet globalization are thinking as they see some of their jobs sent overseas?…

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