Why outsourced subbing is a good idea

Further to my report about plans by New Zealand papers to outsource subbing, here's the view of Jeff Jarvis in welcoming the idea: "Why not have a gigantic national copy desk... and a huge national design and production desk?... I've been arguing for sometime that the process of finding efficiencies and reorganising newsrooms around what really matters is healthy, necessary, and long overdue. It's about boiling a newspaper down to its essence, its true value. And what is that value? Reporting." (Via Buzz Machine)