In April, the Association for Print Technologies (APTech), in collaboration with WhatTheyThink, is presenting "Tax Reform for Print Businesses," a four-part weekly series of free webinars to provide print business owners including newspapers and their executives key questions to ask their CP…

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The Philadelphia Inquirer was among the first, adding interactive features that bridged the print edition to a reader's smart device in 2012 (see News & Tech, May 2012). AR technology, although not as widely adopted as the industry may have envisioned it would be by now, continues to evo…

Facebook announced in January that it would de-prioritize links from news outlets in the News Feed.

The project included the replacement of three 150HP 1395 drives and one PLC/5 drive masters, with off the shelf Allen-Bradley hardware. The remaining two 1395 drives are still operation, interfaced to the new drive master PLC, thus allowing the full press-wide upgrade to be staged over multi…

When the publisher set out to find a solution to manage and report on its delivery, it wanted one that was all encompassing and could handle myriad tasks. Specifically, CMG wanted to be able to generate daily route book production and delivery reports, and to capitalize on route management a…

News & Tech: Why do publishers need to start looking at a replacement now, if DSM will be around until July 2019?

As we look forward to 2018, our industry will continue to roll with the changes. To do so, and to pivot correctly, it’s important that vendors, publishers, and production managers arm themselves with the proper information.

Reston, VA—“Printers and their suppliers are big winners in the once-in-a-generation tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TC&JA), passed by Congress today,” said APT President Thayer Long. “On an even larger scale, the U.S. economy will be the ultimate beneficiary of this…

How do I get started with YouTube?

The automated service scans and analyzes keywords in your content and finds the audiences on social media most likely to engage with those topics.

Dirks, Van Essen & Murray is a New Mexico-based merger and acquisition firm. Since its inception in 1980, the firm has focused primarily on assisting companies in the sale, acquisition and valuation of daily and weekly newspapers for a variety of purposes. News & Tech caught up with …

Distributed content has turned the digital publishing business model on its head. Once an easy source of quick ad revenue, distributed content has changed how and where people consume content. Today the majority of publisher site traffic often comes from one-and-done, anonymous readers who c…

The Tulsa World continues to invest in technology to improve quality not only for its flagship daily, but to stake its claim as a competitive regional printer. To that end, the publisher has embarked on a multi-phase project to increase efficiency and redundancy to meet commercial demand.

Mobile platforms offer a lot. The variety of platforms and the freedom of customization can lead to award-winning strategies, such as the Economist's engagement strategy. These platforms will gain a status of increasing importance in the next few years, and the media industry is reacting to …

These days, just about everything is done digitally. Consumers can pay their bills, communicate, shop and more, all through a digital source. Therefore, it should come as no shock that media consumption is taking a deep plunge into the digital age. With that plunge come new challenges. A 201…

It was 1807 when German inventor Friedrich Koenig first set out for London with a dream of creating a steam-driven printing press. There, fate aligned his path with that of precision engineer Andreas Bauer. In 1814, The Times became the first paper to be printed on a double-cylinder press th…

The Chief Content Club will kick off later this summer and is inspired by LMA’s popular Chief Digital Club, which launched in January of this year.

It is no different in respect to the advertising that goes hand in hand with print and digital revenue.

A recent report released by Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism outlines the different digital news preferences of 36 countries. The Digital News Report for 2017 surveyed over 70,000 people from these countries.

The web and mobile app that will be soon available to publications have tracking features as well as route optimization, flexible vacation starts/stops, and features for missed deliveries.

This convenience is one of the many goals of KIT, a Swedish start-up digital distribution company launched in April 2015. KIT does content generation and delivery across a multitude of social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and a multitude of regions.

News & Tech reached out to Julian Morelis, CCO at MPP Global, about the partnerships and the company’s eSuite program.

Newspapers have become extremely savvy at recognizing opportunities to sell products that extend beyond subscriptions to their flagship papers.

As publishing companies change monikers from “publisher” to “media company,” so many of us are left to wonder what exactly that means and how can we keep up?

The Wall Street Journal is using new technology to find better ways to connect with readers using their virtual reality app on Google Daydream.

GateHouse Media kicked off 2017 with a resolution to upgrade its Web CMS platform across more than 400 websites serving some 35 million unique users.

The Buffalo (New York) News made an investment in mailroom efficiencies in an effort to create sustainable change and reduce operating costs as the paper adjusts to diminishing readers and insert customers.

The email newsletter platform, popular in the 1990s, is having a major resurgence. In a recent study by Pew Research Center, 15 percent of readers consistently consume news through emails. And about half of those are very loyal to that pathway. Indeed, most news consumers — 65 percent, according to the Pew study, are loyal to a specific way of receiving online news.

As media companies the world over grapple with how to monetize digital content, McClatchy is taking a hard look at its subscription service offering.

Reaching readers with the right technology at the right time with just the right content is a feat all media players are trying to nail down.

While trends come and go, it is always interesting to look at what the future might have in store for the industry.

By Sarah Zook

By Sarah Zook

By Sarah Zook

Based on the notion that readers in small communities want and need useful, informative news, John P. Garrett, owner and publisher of Community Impact Newspaper, has been growing his company since its founding in 2005.

If there is anything we’ve learned as an industry in the last five years, it’s that diversifying content distribution routes increases audience and revenue for newspapers.

There is no doubt in any of our minds that there is less demand for print newspapers than there used to be. As of March 2016, graphic arts supplies shipments dropped 10.3 percent year-over-year.

Four years ago, Chicago-based newspaper and commercial printer Topweb LLC expanded its web offset printing operation with the addition of a TKS JetLeader 1500 digital inkjet press. The following year the operation added a second TKS JetLeader press. Both digital presses were configured with …