“Outsourced Edit?” is the headline of a short piece by Ben Frumin in the current issue of CJR about Express KCS, an “Indian back-office company that designs and produces advertisements for more than one hundred U.S. publications, many of them in MediaNews Group papers like the San Jose Mercury News,” a company that hopes to take on outsourced editorial work as well.
The Associated Press reports that Mindworks, another India-based company, has landed a one-month trial to do just that — outsourced editorial work — for the Orange County Register Communications Inc. (specifically copy editing for “some stories published in The Orange County Register” as well page layout for an unnamed “community newspaper.”)
Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.