Koenig & Bauer has set up a five-year endowed chair at Germany’s Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Helene Dorksen has been appointed as chair. The goal of the endowed chair is to promote development and research in the field of document authentication and classification.
The Association for PRINT Technologies has launched the APTech Connect Community Forum, a free online resource designed to foster engagement, collaboration and information-sharing across the print industry’s value chain, according to the association.
American City Business Journals has acquired majority ownership of BizEquity, a provider of cloud-based business valuation tools and private business data.
After going live with SCS/ClassPag at the beginning of the summer, Newsday Media Group has now gone live with SCS/Track, according to SCS (Software Consulting Services).
News Corp Australia has launched a digital-only newspaper for the Newcastle region, called The Newcastle News.
An agreement has been reached for the Tribune Chronicle (Warren, Ohio) to acquire The Vindicator's subscription list, The Vindicator masthead and the Vindy.com domain, Mark Brown, general manager of The Vindicator, announced on Aug. 16. John Cribb, Cribb, Greene & Cope, represented the M…
U.K.-based The Spectator is launching a U.S. edition, the publication announced.
There were layoffs mid-August at GateHouse papers, Poynter reported.
The Wichita Eagle will no longer publish a Saturday paper staring in fall, the paper announced Aug. 14.
Metro, Sweden's largest free newspaper, is stopping all journalistic activities, digital news network The Local reported.
The New York Times Company has reported second-quarter revenue growth of 5.2 percent compared with the same quarter of 2018.
mPRESSions Worldwide has purchased all the equipment at Hagadone Printing in Honolulu, making the buy one of the largest acquisitions in the company’s 25-year history.
Two U.S. magazines, Pacific Standard and Governing, are ceasing publication, The Hill and others reported.
Facebook would pay news outlets up to $3 million annually for the rights to use their material in a news section that Facebook aims to start this year, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Hearst Magazines is monitoring what readers go to online and using that info to give those readers targeted print ads, Adweek reported.
Industry watchers are wondering what will happen with the announced GateHouse buy of Gannett after MNG Enterprises, controlled by hedge fund Alden Global Capital, acquired a 9.4 percent stake in New Media Investment Group last week, as Gannett-owned USA Today reports.
The Chicago Sun-Times has opted to use Chatterbox Cloud Self-Service from Innovative Systems Design, the company says.
The Dallas Morning News will work with The Washington Post to upgrade its website, the Dallas Observer reported.
GateHouse and its parent New Media Investment Group are close to a deal to buy Gannett, sources with knowledge of the deal have confirmed, Rick Edmonds reported for Poynter.
ImPRESSions Worldwide has entered into an agreement to supply a five-unit press to Delta Web Printing in Sacramento, California. Production is near completion at imPRESSions’s Pacific Northwest headquarters and will be ready to transport this week. Once at Delta Web, imPRESSions precision in…
ImPRESSionsWorldwide was able to complete work installing seven Jardis pasters and two three-wide assemblies at Publi-Inversiones Puerto Rico’s printing facility El Vocero. The imPRESSions team was already on an extremely tight schedule when demonstrations started in San Juan, calling for th…
Hearst is creating a self-serve ad platform called Hearst Audience Select, AdExchanger reported.
Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers was approved by a federal bankruptcy judge to buy The Union Democrat and its and its building in Sonora, California, the paper reported.
Newspaper executives will get a 15 percent early bird discount if they register for the ING 2019 conference by Aug. 31.
The Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois) will go to a digital-only replica edition on Saturdays and launch a new weekend package with expanded print editions on Fridays and Sundays, the paper said in a note to readers.
Around a quarter of papers with an average Sunday circulation of 50,000 or more saw layoffs in 2018, a new Pew Research Center analysis says.
Tribune Content Agency, a division of Tribune Publishing Company, has entered into a partnership with The Fresh Toast, a mainstream cannabis content company, to provide “reliable cannabis information to the public,” according to Tribune Publishing. Through the partnership, cannabis news and …
Ashley and Cody Gerlach have bought the Arapahoe Public Mirror and Elwood Bulletin (Nebraska), the McCook Gazette reported.
Leslie Kahana is the new owner of Lake Norman Publications, a group of suburban Charlotte (North Carolina) newspapers, the company’s Herald Citizen reported.
A search has begun for a new CEO of NewCo, the working acronym for the organization resulting from the merging of the Inland Press Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.
A working paper from three academics puts forward the notion that websites are seeing less revenue because of the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR), MIT Technology Review reports.
News Corp Australia has sold its print facility in Melbourne, Australia, GXpress reported.
A large photo archive from Jet and Ebony magazines was auctioned off in late July and will go to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and to the Getty Research Institute, NPR and others reported. The public will have the opportunity to see over a million photos for …
Better Newspapers, an Illinois-based company owned by Greg Hoskins, has bought The Mountain Echo (Ironton, Missouri), the paper reported.
Gannett, owner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is selling the paper’s buildings, The Waukesha Freeman and others reported.
Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement, under which Quad would have acquired LSC, Quad announced on July 23.
Pew Research Center issues an annual assessment of the state of the news media, and has done so since 2004. Here is some key information from the 2018 state of the industry:
Members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the Inland Press Association have approved a plan to consolidate the two associations, effective Oct. 1.
The Washington Examiner had its sixth straight month of year-over-year rises in unique visitors, according to TheRighting, which breaks down traffic of conservative websites using information from Comscore. The site doubled its June 2019 unique visitors compared to June 2018, according to Th…
Virginia-based News Media Alliance is applauding the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) for the findings of its Digital Platforms Inquiry, released in late July.
