Comments on: Morning Lineup - June 25 http://firegeezer.com/2008/06/25/morning-lineup-june-25/ Hottest Fire Blog On The Web Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Dal90 http://firegeezer.com/2008/06/25/morning-lineup-june-25/#comment-18764 Dal90 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:59:44 +0000 http://firegeezer.com/2008/06/25/morning-lineup-june-25/#comment-18764 The Worcester T&G and I presume Boston Globe outsourced their internal accounting functions to India a couple years ago. I'm sure the managers trying to straighten out book keeping issues just love dealing with Apho over the phone instead of walking upstairs. I know enough about both organizations to make an informed guess the Globe saved a lot, but the T&G operations would've cost more to outsource. Economies of scale, eh? Although the copy editing to proof read is intriquing. God knows it hasn't been done in years properly here. ============= Not all job cuts are circulation related. It simply takes a fraction of the staff to do the work now thanks to increasing automation. Even in 2000 the T&G was still put together, mostly, by Cut-n-Paste. I'm not talking CTRL-C, CTRL-V -- I'm talking exacto knives, bottles of paste, and grid paper. The completed pages where imaged and transmitted to the printing plant using a very fancy fax machine. That's all computerized now. In the late 1970s it took three times as many workers to produce a single edition...now that smaller staff handle five editions with much more diverisity in advertising and such, plus a quarterly magazine! The Worcester T&G and I presume Boston Globe outsourced their internal accounting functions to India a couple years ago.

I’m sure the managers trying to straighten out book keeping issues just love dealing with Apho over the phone instead of walking upstairs. I know enough about both organizations to make an informed guess the Globe saved a lot, but the T&G operations would’ve cost more to outsource. Economies of scale, eh?

Although the copy editing to proof read is intriquing. God knows it hasn’t been done in years properly here.

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Not all job cuts are circulation related. It simply takes a fraction of the staff to do the work now thanks to increasing automation.

Even in 2000 the T&G was still put together, mostly, by Cut-n-Paste. I’m not talking CTRL-C, CTRL-V — I’m talking exacto knives, bottles of paste, and grid paper. The completed pages where imaged and transmitted to the printing plant using a very fancy fax machine.

That’s all computerized now.

In the late 1970s it took three times as many workers to produce a single edition…now that smaller staff handle five editions with much more diverisity in advertising and such, plus a quarterly magazine!

]]> By: Ken http://firegeezer.com/2008/06/25/morning-lineup-june-25/#comment-18689 Ken Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:42:19 +0000 http://firegeezer.com/2008/06/25/morning-lineup-june-25/#comment-18689 Newspapers have been slowly dying for years. My dad work in layout and composing at a large paper for here in CT for 30 years. When he started there were about 150 people on three shifts, 7 days a week. His old department is now three people. Interesting article about the Orange County Register outsourcing editing to India http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D91GQIK80.htm Newspapers have been slowly dying for years. My dad work in layout and composing at a large paper for here in CT for 30 years. When he started there were about 150 people on three shifts, 7 days a week. His old department is now three people.

Interesting article about the Orange County Register outsourcing editing to India http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D91GQIK80.htm

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