Maureen Dowd column's today is one of the few things that has genuinely shocked me in a while. She profiles James Macphereson, the founder of Pasadena Now, an online "daily magazine" for the Pasadena area that is written entirely by workers in India. Macpherson and his wife determine editorial content and direct their reporters in India to write it up.
Town meetings are attended by webcam. Interviews conducted by phone. Workers are paid by the piece, so many use it as a supplementary source of income. All of which is fine and good, but this is the model for a local newspaper? One where the writers not only don't live in the area but have never even been there? As Dowd notes by the end, this model is starting to get looked into by other papers.
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