Most major newspapers are actually insolvent and are kept afloat by the political establishment. Editors of major newspapers are often replaced when they do are too critical of the government.
When a couple of months ago there was a critical article on the new York times the writer was rapidly dismissed just to prove the point.
I think it goes both ways. Our company Agile Media Lab is in Chandigarh and we are having a lot of difficulty to find highly qualified resources. We normally do around 100 interviews for each hire and we still have several positions open we still can't fill. We do pay at the top of the market.
Currently we are trying to bring in talent from Delhi and Bangalore.
I normally ask for a probability to complete by a certain date. That works well enough.