'Local' US news website hires Indian reporters

Evidence of the shrinking world. A community website in California, Pasadena Now, has hired two Indian reporters - one in Mumbai and the other in Bangalore - to cover the Pasadena city council, which broadcasts its meetings on the web. "A lot of the routine stuff we do can be done by really talented people in another time zone at much lower wages," explains the site's editor and co-founder, James Macpherson. He says he will help add "local flavour" to the articles written by his new Indian journalists by conducting local interviews himself. (Via Los Angeles Times)