Offshore copyediting; will it come to a magazine near you?

Signs of the times dept: The Miami Herald, owned by McClatchy & Co., is outsourcing copy editing of a weekly community news section to Mindworks Global Media, based in New Delhi, India. Mindworks will also monitor reader comments posted to online stories.

Earlier in December, The Sacramento Bee also owned by McClatchy said it would outsource some of its advertising production work to India. And in May, news website pasadenanow.com was widely criticized after editors hired two reporters in India to cover the Los Angeles suburb.