No Iceberg - Separating Truth from Fiction About Newspapers In This Recession

By Earl J. Wilkinson The death of the newspaper is one of the great exaggerations of today’s economic downturn. It is a myth being perpetuated by people, companies, and the t ...>

Cases of other countries

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Video: Kevin Beatty, Associated Newspapers

Kevin Beatty is the Group Managing Director of Associated Newspapers in the U.K., as well as vice president on the IFRA Board. Here Beatty discusses how his company, IFRA and the industry are ...>

IFRA Magazine annual survey on budget spending priorities in 2009

Download the PDF showing the answers from the respondents world wide. The survey was ...>

Increasing circulation: Q&A with Joe Spitzer, Dow Jones & Co. (Asia)

Joe Spitzer is Director of Communications, Asia, for Dow Jones & Co. IFRA: What would be your top idea for increasing circulation/reach in 2009? Joe Spitzer: We are focusing ou ...>

5 wild ideas for better newsroom management

Juan Antonio Giner, editor of Innovations in Newspapers, offers some additional suggestions for editorial reorganisation in 2009: Idea 1: Organize the newsroom around audiences, instead of ...>

Interview with Hans Lindberg, UNT Distribution

UNT Distribution is a Swedish distribution company owned by publisher Upsala Nya Tidning. UNT delivers national and regional morning papers as well as 15 magazines and other publications. A ...>

Voices of Africa Project

The following information about the Voices of Africa Media Foundation was provided by Pim de Wit and Henri W. Aalders of Voices of Africa. De Wit is the managing director of Voices of Africa; Aalders is the foundation's program manager. The Voices of Africa Media ...>

Interview with Kristina Bürén, IFRA Sweden

IFRA: What recommendations do you have for publishers who aren’t doing anything with mobile yet, and aren’t sure where to start? Kristina Bürén: I think one way to start is to make you ...>

Interview with Alberto Tascón from Prisacom

Text not yet available in English. IFRA: ¿Cuáles crees que van a ser las claves para 2009 en cuanto a las webs de periódicos se refiere? Alberto Tascón: Creo que este va a se ...>

Torry Pedersen: "Moving images will be a commodity for news sites"

IFRA Magazine: What do you think will be the most relevant products or services in news publishing websites next year? Torry Pedersen: Bringing news! Fully utilizing the webs potential ...>

IFRA Board Member Steven Tan

Steven Tan is Deputy Chairman of Star Publications in Malaysia. In a media industry career of more than 35 years, Tan has spent more than 22 years as Group CEO/MD of Star Publications. He assumed the post of Group Deputy Chairman in August 2008. Star Publications pu ...>

IFRA Board Member Kasturi Balaji

Kasturi Balaji has been Director, Kasturi & Sons Ltd., publishers of The Hindu, responsible for technology, production, and ink manufacturing since 2000. From 1991 to 2000, he was Managing Director of Sanka Graphics, a company in digital pre-press, digital printing an ...>

IFRA Board Member Saleh A. Al-Humaidan

Saleh Ali Al-Humaidan has been the Managing Director of Al-Yaum Daily Newspaper Dammam Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1998. He has also been a lecturer at King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals – College of Industrial Management – Dept. of Marketing & Manag ...>

IFRA Board Member Djordje Stefanovic

Djordje Stefanovic is the General Manager of Press Publishing Group (PPG) and the founder of the daily newspaper Press in Serbia. The Press Publishing Group ended 2007 with a turnover of 15 million euros. The year saw them launch the daily newspaper Press, then the monthly ...>

IFRA Board Member Sandy Prieto-Romualdez

Alexandra “Sandy” Prieto-Romualdez has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philippine Daily Inquirer since 1998. Aside from the Inquirer, Prieto-Romualdez is also actively involved with the newspaper’s sister companies. She is the Chairperson of ...>

IFRA Board Member Vasily Gatov

Vasily Gatov is Strategy Director and Advisor to the Board of MEDIA3. He is responsible for the division that forges the future for the largest Russian printed media group. MEDIA3 comprises leading national daily and weekly newspapers (Trud Daily and Argumenty I Fakty weekl ...>

IFRA Board Member Fabrice Nora

Since June 2008, Fabrice Nora has been Director and Member of the Board of directors of SPPP, and Director and Member of the Board of directors of CPPP, for Les Papiers de Presse. From June 2002 to May 2008, he worked for Le Monde Group, where his positions included: Gen ...>

IFRA Board Member Jean Hornain

Since 2005, Jean Hornain has been Director General of Groupe Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, Paris, which includes newspapers and Internet; and President of Société de Distribution et de Vente du Parisien. His previous posts include: > 2003-2004: Vice Pres ...>

IFRA Board Member John Fry

John Fry became Chief Executive of Johnston Press on 5 January 2009. Fry was previously Chief Executive of the Norwich, U.K.-based regional media group, Archant. He had held this position since 2002. Before moving into the regional media sector, Fry was for nine yea ...>

IFRA Board Member Marc Kramer

Marc Z. Kramer has been the CEO of the New York Daily News since January 2006. As the CEO of the most widely read newspaper in the largest media market in the United States, Kramer spearheaded the recent purchase of new full-colour presses, which will establish the Dai ...>

IFRA Board Member Guy Crevier

Guy Crevier has been President and Publisher of La Presse, the French-language national newspaper of Canada, and President of Gesca Ltée since March 2000. As a media group and wholly owned subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada, Gesca is engaged in the publication o ...>

Interview with Karsten Koeppe, Druckhaus Spandau

Not yet available in English Januar 2008 - Karsten Koeppe ist Leiter Versorgungstechnik im Druckhaus Spandau des Axel Springer Verlags. Der Betrieb ist seit zehn Jahren EMAS-zertifi ...>

Cost savings tips from Roland Glin, EAE

Not available in English January 2008 - Roland Glin (Leitung PR und Dokumentation bei der EAE Ewert Ahrensburg Electronic GmbH) sieht erhebliches Einsparpotenzial im Druckhaus: "Aus Sicht des Maschinensteuerers und Workflow-Optimierers EAE sind die meisten Lösunge ...>

Printing cost calculation model helps to reduce costs

IFRA Special Report 3.37 Newspaper production is very capital-intensive, so tools are required that allow a fast and detailed calculation of production costs. Changes to the length of print ...>

Cost savings: Interview with Ronald Sonnleitner

Engineer Ronald Sonnleitner is head of IT and prepress at the Landesverlag Druckservice in Wels, Austria, where 70 different newspaper titles as well as 30 different semi-commercial obje ...>

IFRA Board Member Kalle Jungkvist

Kalle Jungkvist has been the editor in chief of Sweden’s Aftonbladet New Media since 1999. From 1991 to 1999, he was the managing editor of Aftonbladet, which he had joined as a reporter in 1977 and where he later worked as news editor. Before joining Aftonbladet, he worked ...>

IFRA Board Member Tobias Trevisan

Tobias Trevisan was born on 17th March 1959 in Basle (Switzerland). He graduated with a degree in economics from Basle University in 1984. He is also a professional advertising manager and has received management training from the Harvard Business School (AMP). He entered t ...>

Xenia Shevnina on trends in the Russian advertising market

Available only in Russian По данным АКАР, получаемым в том числе и на основе оценок экспертов ГИПП, обнародованным в середине лета, объем рекламы в прессе увеличился на 21,3% по срав ...>

Why invest now? Viewpoints of some users

Michael Gill, Editor-in-Chief, Financial Review, Australia What are your expectations for the coming year? We have developed a Flex-based application model for our digital platform. It is integrated with a Cyber Newspaper production platform, with its own e ...>

Why investing now? Viewpoints of some system suppliers

Torben Juul VP Marketing, CCI Europe, Denmark What are your expectations for the coming year? CCI Europe believes that we are finally witnessing the fruition of convergence in ...>

Ifra Strategy 2007: Focus on India

The Indian publishing industry has seen unforeseen growth in the last two years. It has also become a prosperous market for print publishing. The boom in the Indian economy and the country's growing literacy levels have augmented this growth for newspapers. India is also a ...>

Interview with Robert Granfeldt Jr. about Spotted

newspaper techniques: When did Spotted start and on which Morris website? Robert Granfeldt Jr: The program was conceived in Jacksonville, Florida as a part of Jacksonvi ...>

Interview with Piet Bakker on free dailies in 2007

newspaper techniques: You have been tracking free daily newspapers for some years now. Does their ongoing growth rate (22 million copies a day this time last year and 30 million ...>

Comment effectuer des choix industriels en 2007?

Available in French and German Les conseils d'Andreas Schaffner, directeur de Ringier Print Adligenswil AG En 2005, l’imprimerie Ringier d’Adligenswil a lancé un vaste plan de modernisatio ...>

Christopher Bisco, Managing director (Publishing)

Christopher Bisco joined Cumbrian Newspapers Group based in Carlisle in 2001. Prior to that, he worked for Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspaper plc (acquired in 1999 by Johnston Press). He has ...>

What content works?

By Paul A.Camp, CEO of a company called Content That Works (www.contentthatworks.com), established in 2000 by former managers of Thomson Newspapers. To that point, I do not have all the answers. Indeed far from it. What I have an interesting vantage point in that ...>

Reducir costes: Entrevista a Severino Santirso y Jose Ángel Cabezón, La Voz de Galicia

Available in Spanish only técnicas de prensa: ¿Qué medidas se han puesto en práctica en vuestras plantas para mantener los costes en un nivel reducido? Santirso /Cabezón: ...>

Reducir costes: Entrevista con Julián Esteban, Director Gerente Técnico Industrial de El Mundo

Available only in Spanish tdp: ¿Qué medidas habéis puesto en marcha para reducir costes en vuestras plantas de producción? Julián Esteban: En principio, hemos puesto e ...>

Reducing costs: Interview with Rick Edmonds, Poynter Institute

técnicas de prensa: Analysts say that you can reduce costs reducing (what you do, staff...) or making more with what you have. Which long term strategies could help not only to reduce co ...>

Online advertising in 2007 – newspapers participate in the boom

Online advertising is booming worldwide. According to estimations of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, total turnover in the third quarter of 2006 for th ...>

Citizen journalists: Any time, any place, anywhere

Topix.net tries 'citizen journalism'

Flickr, Buzznet expand citizens' role in visual journalism

It's Almost Time to Pay Up for Citizen Journalism

As Blogs and Citizen Journalism Grow, Where's the News? - Citizen-generated content has a significant role to fill in the dissemination of information. But they won't replace traditional media

Free newspapers: The German situation

When will free newspapers come to Germany? And when they come, what will be the consequences for the paid-for newspapers? newspaper techniques asked Hans-Joachim Fuhrmann, member of the board of the BDZV (German Newspaper Publishers’ Association). newspaper ...>

Citizen Craig doesn't trust 'MSM'

Readers get to write the news as well as read it with new 'citizen' website

Sweden: Local dailies bring in citizen voices in reporting

Grassroots journalism: Actual content vs. shining ideal

Citizen News Photographs: No Longer Free

Progress in Swedish media's blog approach - Swedish daily Norrbottens-Kuriren launched a citizen journalism initiative called "Blog of the week"

Austin American-Statesman Embraces Citizen Journalism (registration required)