Publisher of LA Times and Chicago Tribune sends IT jobs overseas

[OhioChick]

If major newspaper chains move IT work offshore, will that hurt coverage of job outsourcing?

May 17, 2016 12:25 PM PT

Tribune Publishing Co., a major newspaper chain, is laying off as many as 200 IT employees as it shifts work overseas.

The firm, which owns the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant and many other media properties, told IT employees in early April that it's moving work to India-based Tata Consultancy Services.

Interestingly, the Tribune IT employees were notified within weeks of a similar announcement involving IT employees at the McClatchy Company, another major newspaper chain.

McClatchy, which owns the Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and many other newspapers, is laying off between 120 and 150 IT employees. That company hired Wipro, an IT service provider also based in India.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3071744/it-careers/publisher-of-la-times-and-chicago-tribune-sends-it-jobs-overseas.html

[valerief]

1. Cuz rich people must get richer. nt

[LittleGirl]

2. One of the many

reasons why I left that field. I hope it all blows up in their face. Idiots.

[Equinox Moon]

3. Tragic news

how can they do this? We fully understand these kind of sociopathic actions now. They have been outed and these kind of actions will soon be stopped. I think we are in transition. First the awareness, then outrage, then change.

Go Bernie!

[NWProf]

4. The problem is: We don't understand...

Unless “we the people" do start becoming aware that the rich are not our friends, we are doomed. There has always been class warfare in this country. For a time during the FDR administration, we took back some of the power. But as soon as FDR died, the oligarchs started the campaign to reverse the gains of the people. It has taken them nearly 80 years, but now in the form of Donald Trump, or Hillary Clinton, they are about to succeed.

The oligarchs crowning achievement is the TPP. When it is finally passed, “we the people” will become what so many businesses have already declared us to be: human resources. As such, we will be plundered, used and abused as the overlords see fit.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what the founding fathers had accomplished, he replied, “We have given you a republic, madam.” He then quickly added, "If you can keep it." At this point in our history, nearly 240 years after Ben Franklin’s comments, his fear is about to be realized.