The Miami Herald has decided not to outsource some of its copy editing to India after all. Apparently, editors realized folks thousands of miles away from the newsroom might not have the local expertise needed to edit local stories.``The more we looked at the prospects of editing and layout from outside the newsroom, the more it was clear these skills involving news judgment and experience are not likely to work well from afar," wrote Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal in a staff memo published in the Romenesko column on the Poynter Institute website.
Other papers are still looking for ways to cut costs, and outsourcing is one of them. The Californian in Bakersfield announced it will outsource some jobs, but none of them are newsroom jobs.
What do you think? Are you glad Miami reconsidered? Or should newsrooms be more open to new ways of doing things?
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