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Pasadena website defers outsourced coverage, but plans more India-based reporters

Silicon Valley: A California-based news website that created a stir when it hired two reporters in India to cover local city government and politics failed to publish the first batch of outsourced stories following reactions to the plan. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of pasadenanow.com, said the "attention that we've received" prevented him from running the stories.

The reporters were hired to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200.

The publisher says it makes sense since City Council meetings are available on the Web. From nearly 9,000 miles away, the outsourced journalists would watch, then write, their stories while their boss sleeps. In addition, the correspondents will e-mail anybody they want for an interview.

He is now planning to hire half a dozen more India-based reporters. — PTI

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