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How can it be Voice of America?
Al Kamen, in the Washington Post today, reports that the Voice of America is planning to outsource its graveyard shift reporting to Hong Kong – that’s Communist China.
Who says irony died on September 11, 2001?
According to the report:
…the plan, announced at a recent staff meeting, is to take about eight news writer jobs — the slots of people who work the graveyard shift from around midnight to the morning — and move those tasks to Hong Kong. (The people will move to other shifts.) These folks handle the late news writing, then send their stories to be translated by VOA language services into Swahili, Spanish and so on.
VOA says the move could save at least $300,000 in salaries and benefits each year, and would relieve people burdened by working those hours — though we hear most of those affected like their hours and enhanced night pay.
The idea is to use contract employees — expatriate English-speakers in Hong Kong, who would be supervised by a senior editor in Washington.
The “rank and file” had objections to this plan, announced by management at a recent staff meeting.
I found the link on War and Piece, an excellent political blog (written by a woman).
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