{"id":184213,"date":"2012-06-30T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/30\/i-wonder-if-this-will-effect-coverage-of-outsourcing\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:14:00","slug":"i-wonder-if-this-will-effect-coverage-of-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/30\/i-wonder-if-this-will-effect-coverage-of-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder if This Will Effect Coverage of Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romenesko is reporting on a <i>This American Life<\/i> story about how a local news service is <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2012\/06\/30\/journatic-is-caught-using-fake-bylines\/\">using overseas reporters and having them use aliases in order to conceal the fact<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The latest \u201cThis American Life\u201d looks at hyperlocal content provider Journatic and interviews Journatic writer-editor Ryan Smith, who reveals that the company uses fake bylines for its Filipino writers \u2014 or did, until \u201cTAL\u201d blew the whistle on them.<\/p>\n<p>Smith tells TAL\u2019s Sarah Koenig that \u201cwhen I ended up looking at the names on a lot of the stories [he edited], the names on the stories that were published weren\u2019t the ones that I saw had written the stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One piece, for example, had the byline of \u201cGinny Cox,\u201d when the story was actually written by Gisele Bautista in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Koenig says: \u201cLooking at the computer system that the company uses to manage its stories, it seems that when Gisele worked on this real esate story, there was a button called SELECT ALIAS, and when she clicked on it, she had a choice: she could either be Ginny Cox, or Glenda Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Journatic and the Chicago Tribune\u2019s TribLocal have used other fake bylines for stories written by Filipino writers, including Jimmy Finkel, Carrie Reed, Jay Brownstone and Amy Anderson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Romenensko (and apparently TAL), are focusing on the journalistic ethic issues of fake bylines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually more interested in the effect that this will have on the coverage of outsourcing and moving overseas that we see from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>I have always felt that one of the conceits which gave us generally laudatory coverage of moving jobs&nbsp; overseas was the conceit that reporting could not be outsourced.<\/p>\n<p>Now that they know that it&#8217;s <b>their<\/b> jobs on the line, I wonder if the tenor of the stories will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romenesko is reporting on a This American Life story about how a local news service is using overseas reporters and having them use aliases in order to conceal the fact: The latest \u201cThis American Life\u201d looks at hyperlocal content provider Journatic and interviews Journatic writer-editor Ryan Smith, who reveals that the company uses fake bylines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1090,1016,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ethics","category-international-commerce","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}