US: Reuters Outsourcing Journalists
by Jacques Steinberg, New York Times
Outsourcing has become all the rage in recent years, and India has become a favorite destination for Western companies that want to send jobs to cheaper markets. Companies as different as Delta Air Lines and Dell Computer have hired workers or subcontractors to perform customer service, data entry or other computer-related jobs once done in the United States.
Now, Reuters is going a step further. It told its editorial employees in an electronic posting late last week that it planned to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to do basic financial reporting on 3,000 small to medium-size American companies. "It's a place where you can get people who understand English, understand financial statements, understand journalism and who are educated to a very high standard and eager to do this kind of work,'' David Schlesinger,
global managing editor of Reuters, said in a telephone interview. They are also relatively inexpensive, he added. Though Reuters, which has its headquarters in London, is perhaps best
known as an international news agency, it draws most of its revenue from the more than 400,000 people on Wall Street and in other financial centers who use its financial services products.
The reporters in Bangalore will mostly be responsible for extracting basic financial information from company news releases and quarterly earnings reports. Tasks like interviewing a company president, talking to analysts and covering breaking news, will continue to be done by more experienced journalists working in the countries where those companies operate, Mr. Schlesinger said.
While the pilot project is intentionally modest, it is related to a much larger effort, announced by Reuters late last year, that will send about 200 of its data-entry jobs to Bangalore from England and the United States.
The Economic Times, an Indian publication, reported last week that other media companies, including Time Warner, Disney and Bertelsmann, were considering outsourcing parts of their information technology and back-office operations to India.
In the message to employees about the journalism project, which will deal with companies Reuters does not cover regularly now, Mr. Schlesinger did not rule out expanding the project.
"I'll keep you informed as how this develops,'' he wrote. "This could be a very exciting way to get more news on our wires in a more efficient way.''

DOM MORAES: UNCONCERN IN GOA TOWARDS ITS EMINENT SONS By Joseph Zuzarte jzuzarte@rediffmail.com From: Goanet goanet@goanet.org
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The generally unmourned death of Dom Moraes recently one again highlights the unconcern in Goa towards eminent sons of the soil who shine in other lands. Similarly last year with F. N. Souza. According to many, Dom was the greatest living writer of English in this country. He never won the Booker or anything of that sort. He was not that kind of wrier, a novelist. He occupied a more rarer realm; he was a writer's writer. He also possibly peaked too early, and then went steadily downhill. Likewise in a way, F. N. Souza. He was considered not just by many, but by most art connoisseurs as a bigger artist than M.F. Husain. He was a founder member of the rogressive Artists Group in the late '40s in Bombay (along with Husain, Ara, Gaitonde, etc.). He later migrated to Europe and then settled down in New York. Like Dom Moraes, he never considered himself an Indian or Goan artist. He considered himself an international artist, free to paint the human condition. A lot of his art is sexual and erotic in nature. Catholic imagery is also strong in his work. One of his most famous paintings is titled 'Panjim Card Players' and it so evokes the spirit and bylanes of Panjim, at least of a bygone era, that it is eerie. Full article at: http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-August/108577.html

Indian engineers to save UK rail network
Goanet by:Eustaquio Santimano
Faced with acute shortage of skill, Britain has imported a dozen Indian engineers to carry out urgent work on its crumbling rail network and refurbish signal boxes dating back to the Victorian era.
The emergency mission to upgrade the outdated Victorian signal boxes was launched when desperate bosses realised there were not enough experts here to do the job, Daily Express tabloid reported.
More than 150 years after Britain first built tracks in India, Network Rail chiefs have been forced to spend around £40,000 to fly in the 12 Indian workers because of the skills shortage.
see full article at : http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-August/108578.html

How the Tate Family conducts business
News Release By: Mili Tate
There is Dick Tate who wants to run everything. Ro Tate tries to change everything. Agi Tate stirs up trouble whenever possible and Irri Tate always lends a hand.
Whenever new ideas are suggested, Hesi Tate and Vegi Tate pour cold water on them. Imi Tate tries to mimic everyone, Devas Tate loves to be disruptive and Poten Tate wants to be a big shot. But it is Facili Tate, Cogi Tate, and Medi Tate who always save the day by getting everyone to pull together.