New Haven Advocate Outsources Its Writing To India

It started as a joke, but then alt-weekly New Haven Advocate hired Indian journalists to write one issue of the paper.

They posted ads on Craigslist, lined up a stable of freelancers who could handle the 12 hour time difference, and had at.

“Most sections proved possible to farm out—and with sometimes hilarious results. Journalist Dev Das interviewed a pair of mind-readers performing a world-premiere telepathy show in West Hartford this week — then he shared a vindaloo recipe with their publicist.

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