Agfa Graphics’ Jeti Tauro H3300 LED has taken home gold at the 2018 Canadian Printing Awards in the wide-format category. The hybrid UV inkjet LED system, produced in Canada, offers a combination of vivid six-color prints (plus white or primer) up to 3.2 meters wide at speeds up to 453 m2/hr…

Weiss Druck, a printer in Monschau, Germany, has ordered a Colorman e:line newspaper printing system from manroland Goss web systems. 

Nuvo, an alternative newsweekly based in Indianapolis, is cutting its print schedule.

The New York Times is using Google Cloud technology to digitize an extensive collection of photographs dating back to as early as the late 19th century, the company said. The process will uncover some never-before-seen-documents, equip Times journalists with an easily accessible historical r…

Germany’s Niedermayr is now doing inserting in-house, using the FlexLiner inserting system.

A new book from the News Media Alliance highlights the benefits of advertising in print and digital news media. “Recent research shows that, for advertisers, there’s no better audience to target than the news media audience,” says a news release on the book, “News Advertising Panorama.”

New York Magazine to have digital subscription offeringNew York Magazine will have a digital subscription offering starting later this month, the magazine announced.  The offering will involve Vulture, the Cut, Intelligencer, the Strategist, and Grub Street, which produce around 150 stories …

Discovery platform Taboola has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with Tribune Publishing Company, bringing the Taboola Feed to Tribune Publishing’s digital audiences. The deal builds on an existing partnership between Taboola and Tribune Publishing with the goal of increasing use…

Tribune Publishing intends to offer buyouts to full-time non-unionized workers who have been with the company for a decade or more, according to The Virginian-Pilot. The offer is company-wide. An offer for union workers is expected to follow, the paper reported.

Printing technologies trade fair drupa 2020 is experiencing a strong demand for exhibition space, according to organizer Messe Dusseldorf North America. The fair is scheduled for June 16–26 at the exhibition center in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Druckzentrum Neckar-Alb has awarded ABB with an order for an extensive controls and drives retrofit for modernization of its Wifag OF470 newspaper presses.
Druckzentrum Neckar-Alb’s press line in Reutlingen, Germany, comprises six printing towers, three folders and six reelstands.  
The orig…

The Tampa Bay Times has cut its newsroom staff by 16, according to the Poynter Institute, which owns the paper. The Times is the sixth-largest paper in the nation. 

Hearst Connecticut newsrooms have recently cut around 30 people though layoffs and buyouts, Poynter reports.

Ingenta, a provider of technology solutions to publishers, is offering two new web-based platforms for media organizations, Truly Media and Editorial.

The New York Times Company now has more than three million paid digital-only subscribers and more than four million total, the company reported on Nov. 1. 

Denver-based Digital First Media is laying off 107 workers at a Colorado Springs call center starting in late December and going into January and February of 2019, the Denver Post and others reported. 

Readers of Gannett papers in the company’s 109 local markets will be told to go online to papers’ websites for election results. There will be little in the way of fresh election results in the Nov. 7 print editions, Ken Doctor reports in his Newsonomics column for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. 

Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications announced Oct. 31 that their boards of directors have approved a deal to have Wisconsin-based Quad acquire LSC Communications in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion, including the refinancing of LSC Communications’ debt. 

The Siebold Company has acquired web offset printing press parts supplier DR Press Equipment. The purchase is aligned with Siebold’s parts expansion strategy to better serve the company’s global customer base, the company says. 

Nemo News Media Group has bought Missouri’s Palmyra Spectator, which had announced it would close Oct. 31.

Donerail Group, McClatchy and AIM Media have put in bids to buy Tribune Publishing Co., according to sources with knowledge on the bids, Bloomberg reported.  

The Oct. 16 outage on YouTube led to a 20 percent rise in traffic to client publishers’ sites, Chartbeat found. 

The Washington Post is expanding its tech coverage, adding 11 new positions for reporters, editors and videographers, the paper announced.

The Enterprise (Brockton, Massachusetts) is temporarily departing the city of Brockton. The paper’s current offices in Brockton are being renovated by the landlord, the paper reported. 

MPP Global, the technology company that delivers the eSuite subscription and billing platform, has launched digital subscriptions for Torstar Corporation. Torstar is home to over 90 regional news titles across Canada, including The Toronto Star, one of Canada's highest-circulation daily newspapers.

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Facebook £500,000 ($640,463) for “serious breaches of data protection law.”

Startup Scroll announces financing roundDigital startup Scroll has announced that Union Square Ventures is leading a $7 million financing round in Scroll. The round also includes participation from Samsung Next, Bertelsmann, Gannett, Axel Springer, The New York Times, Uncork Capital, Founder…

In March 2018, Tensor International was awarded a contract for a new book press for PT Macanajaya Cemerlang, located in Indonesia.

Five Indian printers working with QIPCQIPC is working with five Indian printers: Kalptaru Offset, Natraj Print House, Saraswati Press and Hexagon Print & Pack, according to a press release from QIPC.The Dutch specialist in measuring and control equipment for the printing industry is supp…

Agfa Graphics announced that it plans to close its factory in Branchburg, New Jersey, one of its six production sites for printing plates worldwide. The plant produces lithographic aluminum printing plates for offset presses. In recent years, market demand for these products has slightly dec…

Klangoo, a New Jersey-based artificial intelligence (AI) company and the developer of natural language processing tools and services, has announced a new partnership with the Local Media Consortium. 

Oslo-based-media company Egmont Publishing Norway, part of the Danish Egmont Group and the largest publisher of magazines and weeklies in Norway, is changing its print and digital production to the editorial solution Content-X by ppi Media and Digital Collections.

Hearst has acquired the print and digital assets of seven weekly newspaper brands from Hersam Acorn Newspapers in Fairfield County, Connecticut, including The Ridgefield Press, The Wilton Bulletin, New Canaan Advertiser, The Darien Times, The Shelton Herald, The Trumbull Times and The Milfor…

The U.K.’s Johnston Press is for sale and may have a buyer in Norwegian entrepreneur Christen Ager-Hanssen.

A study released last week from the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism illustrates the growing issue of news deserts in the U.S. 

Lee Enterprises is moving out of its downtown Davenport, Iowa, corporate office, the Quad-City Times reported. The company has been at the Mississippi Plaza building, 201 N. Harrison St., since 2004, according to a news release. Lee will move its offices to 4600 E. 53rd St., Davenport. That …

Marketwatch.com is putting out a print product for the first time in its nearly two decades of publishing, Talking Biz News and others reported. 

The New York Times’s A.G. Sulzberger, Sam Dolnick and David Perpich, cousins and Ochs-Sulzberger heirs, appeared together Oct. 9 at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

The Gazette van Detroit, the sole Flemish-American newspaper in the U.S., is stopping publication, the Detroit Free Press reports. 

LION, Local Independent Online News Publishers, has gotten a $100,000 grant from Facebook, Poynter reports.