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JULY
TOP STORIES
Papers 'press'
for automation
As the battle for
profitability becomes even more intense, newspapers
are cloaking presses with software and other tools
aimed at helping their pressrooms become more
efficient.
Pubs bulk up with 'super
blogs'
All hail the blog.
Again. Tribune Co.'s launch of super-blog site
ChicagoNow is casting a new light on an old
question: How can newspapers lure more readers
online?
Oregonian takes workflow to
next level
The (Portland) Oregonian is live with ProImage
NewsWay, using the workflow software to streamline
functions previously managed with disparate systems.
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George Ellis, ad Mac operator for AdP.A.D, the daily's ad production and
design services department, working on pages in NewsWay.
Photo: The Oregonian
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Forum Architects LLC designed The Free
Lance-Star's new production facility, which will open next year.
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Picking up the pieces
When news broke that the (Denver) Rocky Mountain
News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer were being put
on the sales block and could conceivably stop
printing, Frank Paiva and Bernie Szachara found
themselves in the same spot.
Texas paper ready
to go with $36M postpress upgrade
The Austin (Texas)
American-Statesman is putting a bow on its $36
million postproduction upgrade.
Flexo upgrade on
tap
The Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Times Free Press tapped Acutech LLC to
install mechanical lockups on its manroland Flexoman
press as it prepares to be the first U.S. newspaper
to use plates from a Japanese supplier.
Boston.com expands
The Boston Globe
expanded Your Town into six more Massachusetts
communities as the paper continues to hone its
hyperlocal initiative.
Print '09 putting
newspapers in focus
CHICAGO - The
graphics communications industry may be under
tremendous economic pressure, but that isn't
stopping the Graphic Arts Show Co. from touting its
upcoming Print '09 show as a showcase depicting
what's right with the industry.
Lee, other publishers see ink
savings in the black
Ink-saving software
continues to gain traction as a technology providing
newspapers with significant savings.
Fla. publisher
casts new light on digital workflow
Sun Coast Media
Group Inc. has gone dark when it comes to digital
prepress.
A Kindle to (temporarily) call
my own
So
what’s it like to read a newspaper on a plastic
device? To find out, we took a look at the Kindle 2,
the second generation of Amazon’s display. Of
course, by the time we got our review copy (which we
could only keep for 10 days), Amazon had already
unveiled plans for an even newer Kindle, the DX,
which will sport a newspaper-friendly 9.7-inch
screen.
Publishers
gaining advertisers with self-service model
Self-service
classified ad building is nothing new to most
advertisers, but now newspapers are eyeing the same
model for their display advertising clients.
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