In the sort of once was a surpassingly stable career, newspaper editors and boy-servant layout designers are finding that their careers may have being going the way of computer programmers and inbound customer service reps.

According to BusinessWeek,The Orange County Register is conducting a one month trial to see if every Indian visitor  Mindworks Global Media  can handle a portion of its editing and page layouts.

John Fabris is a deputy Editor at the Orange County Register

"This is a small-scale criterion, which will not touch our topical reporting or decision-making. Our own editors will oversee this work," Fabris said in each e-mail to The Associated Press. "In a time of rapid change at newspapers, we are exploring many ways to work efficiently while maintaining quality and improving local coverage."

The company declined to release the financial stipulations of the deal.

Orange County Register Communications has struggled in recent months with circulation declines. The Register recently dropped from the third-largest newspaper in California to the fifth-largest, behind the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune and Sacramento Bee.

The company has been through three rounds of layoffs in the past year, most recently in April when up to 90 employees lost their jobs. Employees were also offered a voluntary severance program in 2006.

The news of the outsourcing experiment comes one day after The New York Times reported that 2008 looks like it will be the subjugate year ever of Newspaper Advertising Revenues.