Reuters' Stella Dawson on dedicated outsourcing solutions

Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on December 3, 2009 at 2:45 AM

Stella Dawson, Reuters global editor for treasury, told the World Editors Forum about how Reuters both provides newspapers with outsourcing solutions and runs its own off-shore operation.

"Outsourcing is not anything new" in the news industry, she said. For years, newspapers have been outsourcing production of some news to wires such as Reuters. What Reuters has been doing recently, however, is trying to find "customised solutions," rather than just giving all newspapers the same selection of articles to choose from.

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