18 54 Globalisation Proofreading: Outsourcing the news Read the text about outsourcing. In most lines (1–17) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 5–7 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are three examples (0, 00, 000) at the beginning. In an office in central of Bangalore, dozens of employees are arriving to of 0 work on the night line shift. They are journalists employed by the world’s line 00 biggest news agency, Reuters. Their job is to cover US financial news. ✔ 000 And they are working at overnight so that they can report company news 1 live as it happens on the New York Stock Exchange – from India. But why 2 in the world is Reuters covering over Wall Street from Bangalore? In a 3 word: salaries. These are Indian financial journalists can be employed by 4 Reuters for a fraction of the cost balance of employing a journalist at 5 their New York office. Such a system has only recently become feasible – 6 as a result of the internet. Most of US companies now put out their press 7 releases on the internet, and they all pretty use financial PR firms to 8 release their profit figures just as the stock market all opens. So Reuters 9 journalists in Bangalore can access the same basic information – in the 10 same time frame – as their colleagues in New York though. And the 11 reduced cost of telecommunication means that the news is written 12 in Bangalore can be sent around whole the world as quickly as 13 the news written in New York – of key importance for a wire service, 14 which mistakably depends on speed for its competitive advantage. 15 Reuters’ Bangalore operation is only one example of a broader trend in 16 outsourcing by media organisations. 17 Outsourcing vocabulary Put the letters into the correct order and use the words in the sentences on the right. 1. T E E X R N A L: Mr Benning said that using an external provider was out of the question. 2. O R N U T U S C O I G: According to this article here is growing by 20%–25% per year. 3. T I V E S A C I T I: Companies outsource tasks to concentrate on their core . 4. A L T T E N: We are working hard to build up a pool of suitable candidates. 5. F S T A F I N G: She argued that the shift to outsourcing would help cut costs. 6. W E R L O I N G: The decision to outsource is often made in the interest of costs. 7. E L O D E V P I N G: One of the benefits of outsourcing is the reduction of labour costs in countries. 8. P E C O M T E: Outsourcing allows companies to develop competitive strategies that will help them in the global marketplace. 9. A L Q U I T Y: Opponents of outsourcing claim that the of a service is usually worse when it is outsourced. 10. P L O U N E M Y E D: One criticism of outsourcing is that many people in developed countries become when their jobs are moved abroad. 2 3 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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