Members of the newsroom staff of The Omaha World-Herald have filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board stating their desire to be represented by The NewsGuild-CWA. Seventy-five percent of the 95 journalists who work as reporters, copy editors, designers and photographers in The Wor…
The European Parliament has voted to approve a position for talks with member states to hammer out a final deal on digital copyright rules. The measure was approved Sept. 12 by 438 votes to 226, with 39 abstentions.
The American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors have voted to merge and become the News Leaders Association, the groups announced.
Meredith to sell Time brand to Benioffs
Observer Publishing (Washington, Pennsylvania) announced that it’s selling its assets to Ogden Newspapers, the Observer-Reporter reported.
Johnson Newspaper Corp. (New York) is eliminating four positions and returning printing of its newspapers in Batavia and Hudson to Watertown (New York), the Watertown Daily Times reported.
The board of Paddock Publications voted unanimously Sept. 11 to switch totally to an employee stock ownership plan, the Paddock-owned Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) reported.
Lee Enterprises closed the alternative weekly Missoula Independent (Montana) Sept. 11. A demonstration protesting the closure of the free paper took place the same day, according to the Missoulian, a Lee paper in the city.
Reach (until May 2018 Trinity Mirror plc), the U.K.’s biggest newspaper publisher, has opted for a complete retrofit of all PCs involved with the EAE systems on its WIFAG web press at its Oldham facility. The Oldham facility outputs the highest page volume among the company’s numerous sites.…
Schneps Communications, a family-run business owned by Victoria and Joshua Schneps, has acquired Community News Group and NYC Community Media, one of the largest publishers of community newspapers, niche publications, websites and events in New York State.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine - The place that prints your newspapers will no longer be in Presque Isle.Bangor Publishing Co. is closing its printing press, which is operated by Northeast Publishing.All operations are moving to Lewiston.Northeast Publishing General Manager Andrew Birden says the reaso…
Two longtime GateHouse Media executives left the company Sept. 7, the Boston Business Journal reported.
GateHouse Media is shuttering three Arkansas newspapers, the Hope Star, the Nevada County Picayune-Times in Prescott, and the Arkadelphia Siftings-Herald, the Picayune-Times and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported. Sept. 14 will be the last day of operations, the Democrat Gazette reported.
Lakeway Publishers has sold the Osceola News-Gazette (Kissimmee, Florida) to American Hometown Publishing, according to Randy Cope and Gary Greene of Cribb, Greene & Cope, who represented Lakeway Publishers in the transaction.
The Record (Stockton, California) will shutter its production facility in October, President and Publisher Deitra R. Kenoly announced Sept. 7, the paper reported.
The Selma Times-Journal (Alabama) will change print publication days to Tuesday through Saturday, will no longer produce a Sunday printed edition, and will use the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the paper to subscribers, the paper announced. The changes will come about on Oct. 2.
Gannett’s USA Today Network is launching LOCALiQ, a digital marketing and advertising service, USA Today reported.
Three ABB customers have recently ordered upgrades to systems essential for their production, the Switzerland-based company says.
Eleven years after the launch of the first chem-free violet newspaper CtP plate, Agfa Graphics launches Avatar V-ZH, which does not require pre-heating, according to the company.
The Wilson Times (North Carolina) has bought the Kenly News, Pine Level News, Princeton News Leader and The Selma News and has combined the four publications into a county-wide weekly newspaper under the Johnstonian News banner, company executives announced.
The Ashland Daily Press (Wisconsin) is reducing the frequency of its print editions each week, BusinessNorth reports.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) has launched the Richmond Startup Spotlight newsletter, targeted towards the area business community and local startups.
Apple wants major U.S. newspapers in the U.S. to add their content to Texture, the magazine distributor app Apple purchased in spring, Recode reports.
Gatehouse Media has closed The Waynesville Daily Guide (Missouri). The paper printed its last issue Sept. 7, an announcement on the Rolla Daily News site said.
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is awarding more than $100,000 to 18 news organizations as part of its second round of grant making.In the first round, announced in April 2018, CLEF awarded subsidies for Hearken and GroundSource to 34 organizations.The second group of CLEF…
Publisher Susie Biehle and Editor Debbie Hiott announced Aug. 28 that they are departing the Austin American-Statesman, the paper reported. The newspaper had recently announced that it was extending voluntary buyout offers to its staff. The paper didn’t reveal how many people in total had op…
Agfa Graphics intends to acquire the prepress business of the privately-owned Spanish printing plate supplier Ipagsa Industrial, Agfa announced.The transaction excludes the printing plate manufacturing activities in Barcelona, Spain. The printing plate volumes to be acquired will be partly i…
David Welch, an owner of Semanal Media, the company that bought the LA Weekly in fall 2017, is suing the other Semanal owners, the LA Times reports. The suit claims the other owners have mismanaged the paper and wrongly booted Welch of management. “We believe the allegations in this complain…
The Boston Herald is moving its offices to the Braintree Executive Park later this year, the company announced in a memo to staff and the paper reported. The Herald’s entire staff will be relocated to office building in the Boston suburb. The move is scheduled to be done by mid-December. The…
QIPC, the Dutch specialist in measure and control equipment, recently got orders from Indian printer Pudhari Publications in Kolhapur, which will use the mRC-3D-system in their own printing plant, and from Sigmarq Technologies, an Indian press builder, who will install the mRC-3D-system on a…
Costa Rica’s La Nacion has purchased Layout-8000, SCS’s ad dummying software, and Fotoware’s Color Factory, a workflow automation and image enhancement server also sold by SCS, an independent software developer and value added reseller serving the newspaper business.La Nacion is the largest …
The Carthage Press has ceased publication.The Missouri paper, which first published in 1884, saw its last day of publication on Aug. 29, the Joplin Globe reported. The paper’s front page thanked the people of Carthage and Jasper counties."As Southwest Missouri's oldest daily newspaper, it's …
Two North Dakota papers are making changes. The Grand Forks Herald is dropping its Monday print edition. It will publish online on Mondays. The paper will continue with Tuesday through Sunday print editions. The Jamestown Sun is also going digital on Mondays. The paper will continue with its…
Progress News Network (PNN), a daily two-and-a-half minute newscast, will be launched Sept. 4, Axios reports.The newscast is targeted at 35–40+ year-olds and will run on Facebook. The newscast will be promoted with Facebook ads."We believe that Facebook has the ideal targeting and low-cost m…
Lucky HuaGuang Graphics and Agfa Graphics announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance.The strategic alliance aims to allow both companies to grow their businesses by optimizing their respective strengths in manufacturing, technology and distribution of graphic prepress p…
GateHouse Media is closing its weekly papers in Pulaski and Lonoke counties, Arkansas, a GateHouse group publisher confirmed to Arkansas Business.The papers were the North Little Rock Times and the Lonoke County Democrat. Both papers had recently combined with other papers in the area.The fi…
Employees at the Missoula Independent say Lee Enterprises may cut the staff way down or close the paper, Montana Public Radio reported. Lee purchased the paper in 2017. The paper’s staff unionized this year. The union is doing its first negotiations with Lee."They told us they were thinking …
Newspaper printer News Corp Australia is The upgrades of a new gluing system and expansion of format flexibility mean that along with the standard format, the press can produce narrow formats that are usually printed on heatset presses and have been outsourced up to now. There has also been …
The Village Voice has ceased publication. The storied, left-wing New York City weekly, which abandoned print last August but still published online, is now totally closed. Aug. 31 was its last day, The New York Times reports.“This is a sad day for The Village Voice and for millions of reader…