Comments on: Covering Pasadena from 9,000 miles away

By: Tim/ Pasadena Apartments

Tim/ Pasadena Apartments — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:18:35 +0000

Interesting story. I never thought I'd see the day when local beat reporting was outsourced to Mumbai. It's either another example that the world is getting smaller or the world is getting cheaper.

Maybe both.

Tim

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:03:04 +0000

I agree, Pete — outsourcing is outsourcing, whether to India or to Toronto. It makes you think though, doesn’t it?

And that is kind of funny, Eric — I guess now I’m competing with Pasadena Now :-)

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:48:13 +0000

Fascinating Mathew! I think about Tom Freidman’s The World Is Flat a lot these days, and this story brings up a huge ding in that department.

And on an even weirder personal level: I live in Pasadena and learned about this story from a reporter/blogger based out of Toronto ;-)

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:20:36 +0000

and that explains everything that is wrong with press releases.

By: Centinel

Centinel — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:09:20 +0000

Interesting point, /pd. The story’s of particular interest to me given that I’m a local blogger in Pasadena. But it’s hard to say that you can immediately dismiss the whole idea…

Either way, we’ve got a great conversation going on our website. For a Pasadenan’s take on the matter, check us out…

http://foothillcities.blogspot.com/2007/05/pasadenanow-outsources-local-news.html