From Computerworld:
Newspaper chain sending IT jobs overseas
The McClatchy Company, which operates a major chain of newspapers in the U.S., is moving IT work overseas.
The number of affected jobs, based on employee estimates, range from 120 to 150.
The chain owns about 30 newspapers, including The Sacramento Bee, where McClatchy is based; The Fresno Bee, The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., The State in Columbia, S.C. and the Miami Herald.
In March, McClatchy IT employees were told that the company had signed a contract with Wipro, an India-based IT services provider.
In a letter sent to the chain’s IT employees in late March, McClatchy CEO Patrick Talamantes detailed all the improvements the Wipro contract would bring, but buries, well down in the letter obtained by Computerworld, what should have been in its lead paragraph: There will be cutbacks of U.S. staff.
One employee said representatives from the IT vendor are at some of the newspaper's sites and "knowledge transfer" is underway, meaning employees are training replacements to take over their jobs. This is expected to continue through August.
Just wonderful. Our own fishwrap, the Bellingham Herald, is owned by McClatchy. More at the site. This is going on all over America and is one of the reasons I am supporting Trump. Not as a vote for the man but as a vote against Hillary - this is classical corporatism and needs to be stopped.
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