The 50th anniversary of the Metro Production Conference (formerly named Metro Users Group) will take place May 31- June 3 at the Saddlebrook Conference Center, in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
ABB recently completed a control console upgrade at the Strasbourg print site of Dernieres Nouvelles D'Alsace, in France. The project combines the latest control console technology with the original ABB press control system that has been running since 1989, an ABB press release said.
piano, a media software company, helps media companies increase their customer base and expand revenue streams.The company is the result of a combination between three companies: Journalism Online, TinyPass and Piano Media.
we-druck in Oldenburg, Germany, has opted for a highly automated newspaper press from Koenig & Bauer, investing in a Commander CL.
As page counts continue to shrink, more newspaper publishers are finding new and innovative ways to provide content — and value — to readers and advertisers via digital platforms.
proimage recently installed its OnColor ECO SaaS at the Kingsport Times News in Kingsport, Tennessee. The newspaper's goal with the solution was to reduce ink cost and improve color reproduction quality.
while the printing industry in other parts of the world has increasingly been discovering the merits of retrofitting, in the United Arab Emirates this is not yet common. The process, which involves the installation of state-of-the art innovations on existing printing presses, still has to ta…
Newsday has launched its own digital community and toolbox created to foster research and conversation to shape the future of Long Island, New York. Dubbed nextLI, the project will allow the newspaper's editorial board to engage more deeply with the surrounding community.
Gammerler (us) Corporation and GammTech Corporation are merging to form a new company, GammerlerTech Corporation.
The Boston Globe recommissioned its new Pressline Services FlexPress on March 29, about one year after the publisher's originally scheduled go-live date. The installation at The Globe's 330,000-square-foot facility in Taunton marks Pressline's third — and largest — FlexPress installation to date.
Across the board, employers are always looking for ways to save time by creating more efficient practices, and this is no different in the newsroom. Ntooitive, a digital marketing and technology company, is attempting address these inefficiencies.
With Facebook’s changing algorithm, many publishers are reporting drops in referral traffic from the social media giant. It’s becoming increasingly important to drive audience growth and retention using a more diversified toolset — including newsletters. Here are a few tips for making sure y…
I have a friend who jokes that the Internet knows everything about him including “the size and brand of underwear I wear.”
The sale of two 4-high towers completes the final phase of replacing a Solna D300 pressline at La Societe Cherbourgeoise d’Editions in Cherbourg, France.
AdCellerant is a Denver-based ad technology and digital marketing services provider that specializes in executing programmatic display, mobile, tablet, video, native, email and search marketing campaigns on behalf of local media companies.
Local and regional newspapers can now offer schools in their area access to Factorium. com, an online learning platform featuring the News Game and other K12 materials, at no charge to the papers and the schools. Schools around the country normally pay to use the program.
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…
Almost every research study that analyzes news media habits reaches the same conclusion — OTT content is growing exponentially and is by far the video consumption choice among younger audiences. In some markets, consumers are expected to view an average of 19 hours of OTT content weekly by 2…
In February, Omaha-based BH Media announced it would be trimming 148 jobs across its newspapers and leaving 101 positions unfilled. The reduction in staff represents about 6 percent of its workforce.
SAN DIEGO – Executives from Adams Publishing, Hearst, AIM Media and A. H. Belo shared ideas and advice on acquisitions, investments and operations at the Key Executives Mega-Conference, held in late February in San Diego. Overall optimism, a belief in local community coverage and a strong, e…
SAN DIEGO – The Key Executives Mega-Conference 2018 San Diego opened in late February with a record breaking 730 media executives in attendance. Jeff Light, publisher and editor-in-chief of the San Diego Union-Tribune, welcomed attendees and set the tone with his opening remarks on the topic…
Amazon released its 20 sites to the public. It inched ever closer to picking a new home for its second headquarters.
It's been more than six years since newspapers began experimenting with augmented reality features. 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, alt…
Olive Software, an e-publishing company based in Aurora, Colorado, went live with its Olive Cross Media app in January 2018. The app is built for use on tablets and mobile devices. OCM advertises as a program that is able to bundle all content information in a single application.
Competition in today's media requires publishers to establish meaningful connections with consumers. It's hoped that these relationships will boost revenue streams and customer growth. RebelMouse, a CMS agency, shares its experiences in a report that outlines how to build the organic loyalty…
A three-year project to upgrade the controls and drives on the press used for The Halifax Herald Ltd.'s flagship newspaper, The Chronicle Herald, recently wrapped up.
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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…
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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.