INCQC: Interview with Eric Gustavson

newspaper techniques: Can you give me some feedback about the impact of the CQC on your daily production? What were the benefits? You were CQC club winners for years. Was there some impact? Eric Gustavson: The impact we found here was that it wa ...>

INCQC: 'To be among the top 10 is my objective.'

newspaper techniques: How do you rate your experience with the Color Quality Club? Felix Bitterli: In mid-May, the Swiss participants drew up a balance sheet and c ...>

INCQC: Interview with Andrea Gray and Ann Grant, Globe and Mail

Andrea Gray, Quality Manager, Production, and Ann Grant, Quality Manager,
The Globe and Mail, Canada. newspaper techniques: What was the impact of the INCQC on your ...>

Interview with Benoît Binder, La Dépêche du Midi

newspaper techniques: What do you think of this ISAS P-9001 initiative for the printed press? Benoît Binder: Several months ago, I read an introduction about what ...>

Editorial quality: Interview with Rick Edmonds, Poynter Institute

newspaper techniques: How do you define quality in a newspaper? Rick Edmonds: Well, it’s a good question that’s fairly hard to answer. I have a slightly eccentric view of ...>

Accountability is journalism with a conscience

By George Claassen, ombudsman Die Burger "An important daily function of the media is to hold others accountable, whether they are corrupt politicians, or public officials wasting the money ...>

Interview with Francisco Fernández, 20 Minutos

20 Minutos operates country-wide in Spain with 11 outsourced printing centres. Using the ISO 12647-3 standard as a reference from the outset, the company has established a quality ...>

Towards a universally usable colour profile

newspaper techniques: ISO 12647-3:2005, the standard for the newspaper offset printing process, includes a single, process-independent tone value increase (dot gain). T ...>

The debate over online measurement and statistics

As The Guardian and The Telegraph in the U.K. argue about who has the most visited site, the most obvious lesson for spectators is that different systems of measurement result in some very ...>

ESOMAR: Traditional media and audience measurement

Working closely with ESOMAR, the Dutch-based organisation (4400 members in 100 countries) for enabling better research into markets, consumers and societies, Irena Petric, director of ...>

Interview with Koro Castellano of elmundo.es:

newspaper techniques: You are the manager of the elmundo.es website as well as president of OPA (Online Publishers Association) Europe, an organisation whose foremost objective i ...>

Robert Picard: Measure the quality of journalism? that is a real problem

Robert Picard is Professor of Economics at the Jönköping International Business School. His research focuses on economic structures of media markets, media industries and firms; the demand ...>

Website metrics. Damned lies and statistics

When the U.K.'s The Daily Telegraph claimed to have the most visited site its rivals instantly cried 'foul' and a row arose as to what figures provide the most accurate judge of an online n ...>

Interview with Moritz Schwarz: 'Control the process and machine settings'

newspaper techniques: Would you say that by following the ISO 12647-3:2005 for newspaper printing, newspaper are on the safe side in terms of what should be done to reach qu ...>

Colour quality: International standardization ISO 12647 secures worldwide high quality print production

The standardization of printing processes according to ISO 12647 is established worldwide today. Ten years after first publication of the ISO 12647-2 standard for offset printing, methods ...>

Interview with Albert Esslinger-Kiefer

The Pforzheimer Zeitung is known for its outstanding colour printing quality, which on repeated occasions has earned it membership in the International Newspaper Color Quality Club. newspaper techniques talked to publisher Albert Esslinger-Kiefer about the qu ...>

St. Galler Tagblatt - top colour printing quality

St. Galler Tagblatt is the only newspaper worldwide that has been a member from the very beginning of the Newspaper Color Quality Club, the international testimonial to colour printing quality ...>