• CNBC, Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:45 AM

The Orange County Register in Southern California is trying a new way to cut costs: outsourcing to India. Mindworks Global Media in New Delhi will copy edit some of the paper's stories for a one-month trial starting next week. A smaller unnamed sister paper will outsource its page layout to Mindworks.

The company insists it's just a test, and it won't affect reporting or decision-making. The move is also not supposed to prompt more layoffs.

The Register has dropped from being California's third-largest paper to its fifth=largest and has sustained three rounds of layoffs in the past year.

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