Interview with RAO BUMPROM President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1-2. Начну с ...>

Interview with MASPOL President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1. В области ...>

Regional summary: Robert Whitehead address at PANPA 2007

Page 1 of 5 This was originally published in PANPA Magazine, the monthly magazine for Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (PANPA, based in Australia). Described at the time as ...>

Business Report 2007: Online ad revenues start to offset print slide

newspaper techniques: What were the major events in 2007 for people interested in the business of publishing? James P. Rutherfurd: Certainly here in the United States, yo ...>

Business Report 2007: Interview with Martin Fabel, A.T. Kearney

For Martin Fabel, Principal of A.T. Kearney in Berlin, publishing houses have understood the new challenges. In the future, however, they should focus even more on generating business themselv ...>

Business Report 2007: Vivek Couto on Asia

Vivek Couto is an analyst at Media Partners Asia in Hong Kong. Media Partners Asia provides independent analyses and information on the media and communication industries in Asia. new ...>

Business Report 2007: Q&A with Edward Hill-Wood, Morgan Stanley

Edward Hill-Wood is an analyst at Morgan Stanley whose re-rating of Trinity Mirror was widely reported as one of the reasons for that company's share price falling by nearly 5 per ...>

Atex acquires Mactive: Customer reaction

Göteborgs-Posten (GP) in Sweden uses the AdBase advertising solution as well as a subscription system from Mactive. The newspaper has never had any systems from Atex, says Lennart Rosqvist, the newspaper’s IT manager. Here is his reaction about Atex’s acquisition of Mactive. ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Allan Marshall, iMedia Advisory Services

Allan Marshall is a joint principal of iMedia Advisory Services Ltd., the new consulting company jointly formed by Ifra and the principals within iMedia. He is former Group Technical Director o ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from Nicolas Boutet, Wedia

Nicolas Boutet is CEO of Wedia, which was established in 1981 under the name of Datox, a specialist in publishing software for newspapers, the media and business. The company is based in France ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Mike Pelizzoni, BBC Worldwide

Mike Pelizzoni is head of advertisement systems for BBC Worldwide Ltd. (U.K.). newspaper techniques: What Atex and/or Unisys solutions are you using at the moment? < ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from John Marley, News International

John Marley is chief technology officer for News International Ltd., publishers of the U.K. national titles The Times, The Sunday Times, The News of the World and The Sun. News International ru ...>

Atex übernimmt Mediensparte von Unisys: Kurzinterview mit Gerd-Rüdiger Schmidtke von Funkinform

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Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Max Lederer, Stars & Stripes

Max Lederer is general manager of Stars & Stripes, the daily newspaper for the U.S. military communities in Europe, Middle East and Asia. newspaper techniques: Assuming you still ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction from an integration specialist

Russell O'Brien is CEO of Bluescribe Pty Limited, a company that specialises in integration and rationalisation projects regarding business and technology. It is based in London, Sydney and Cap ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Klaus Dombrowski, multicom

Klaus Dombrowski is director of system provider multicom, which is based in Germany. newspaper techniques: The systems offering for publishing companies is shrinking. Do ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with consultant Andreas Pfeiffer

Andreas Pfeiffer is in charge of Pfeiffer Consulting and the Pfeiffer Report about technology and business issues in the media industry. newspaper techniques: In general, w ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Reaction of José Bolufer, IT manager at Le Monde

"The newsdesks at the daily newspaper Le Monde have been working with Hermes since 26 June 2000. Unisys is more than just a supplier, because we have also collaborated with its teams on the develo ...>

Atex aquires Unisys: Q&A with Andrés Checa

Andrés Checa is marketing director for Protec, the system supplier based in Spain. newspaper techniques: The systems offering for publishing companies is shrinking. Do ...>

Atex acquires Unisys: Q&A with Don Oldham, CEO, DTI

newspaper techniques: The system offer just got smaller for publishers; is this a good thing for the industry and for this sector? Don Oldham: More choices are almost alway ...>

Atex acquires Unisys Media

At IfraExpo 2006 in October, rumours were whirling about a possible acquisition/merger between Atex and Unisys. During that week, Atex CEO John Hawkins told newspaper techniques that “Atex is around as a consolidator, definitely not to be consolidated.” True to his word, Atex Gro ...>

Regional business summary: Middle East

As a result of the economic upturn during the first half of 2006, it proved possible to match the circulation figures and ad revenues achieved in 2005. The first changeover of a newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid was carried out at the beginning of the year. According to ...>

Regional business summary: Europe

Newspapers in Europe, even those with long-standing traditions, are struggling for readers and attempting to halt continual drops in circulation by offering attractive add-ons, such as a dictionary at a knock-down price or a collection of classical CDs for mu ...>

Thomas Hauser zur Zeitungsbranche im Jahr 2006

Available in German only. zeitungs­technik: Welches Business-Thema hat Ihrer Meinung nach die Zeitungsbranche im Jahr 2006 am meisten beschäftigt und aus ...>

David Kirk on business 2006

David Kirk is CEO of Fairfax Media in Australia. The following are excerpts from a speech he made addressing the national Press Club in Canberra, 24. October 2006. “I want to discuss our strategy for our business in a world of structural change for the media – and ...>

Tendencias en la prensa escrita española en 2006

Available in Spanish only. por Iñaki Arechabaleta Torróntegui, director general de medios impresos del grupo de comunicación Vocento. En el año 2006 cabe destacar la tendenci ...>

Manfred Werfel on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Manfred Werfel: Maybe we can ...>

Dietmar Schantin on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Dietmar Schantin: The start ...>

Phillip Crawley on business 2006

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Philip Crawley: Ownership di ...>

Gunnar Springfeldt on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Gunnar Springfeldt: The most ...>

Interview with Tony Ridder

In his time as CEO of Knight Ridder, Tony Ridder brought the company years of success. But changing market conditions – the decline of employment-classified advertising, the decline in readership, a stagnant national economy – halted revenue growth. Soon analysts ha ...>

Steffen Helmschrott, Berliner Zeitungsdruck, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Sverre Munck, Schibsted ASA, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Steve Yelvington, Morris Digital Works, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Murdoch MacLennan, Telegraph Group, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Mike Coleman, Cape Publications, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Franz Rossi, Tera Digital Publishing, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry wo ...>

Bob Brown, Goss, on 2006 business

newspaper techniques: When you eventually look back at 2006, what is the one main business issue that you feel will define 2006 for your company and for the newspaper industry worldwide? This will be the year that ... what? Bob Brown: 2006 will be char ...>

Regional business summary: East Asia

Back in April, Malaysian timber baron Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King was busy defending himself against suggestions that his ownership of market leader Sin Chew Jit Poh as well as Guangming Daily was leading to accusations of a monopoly. “In a free market where there is free compe ...>

Regional business summary: Latin America

The purchase of periodicals had a prominent place on the business agenda. Four major deals were closed, all of which involved foreign investors divesting themselves of their stakes. That was the case of the Recoletos group, which gave up its businesses in Argentina after fi ...>

Regional business summary: USA

Plagued by a continuing decline in print subscribers and flustered by Wall Street demands for higher profits, U.S. and North American newspaper publishers took far-reaching steps in 2006 to transform their operations. The most recent semi-annual Fas-Fax repo ...>

Analysis on Asia

Andrew Lynch, an Ifra correspondent, interviewed Vivek Couto, an analyst for Media Partners Asia in Hong Kong, about the general business mood in Asia. In terms of newspapers, 2006 has been pretty quiet for mergers and acquisitions apart from in Australia where a ch ...>

Analysis on France: by Jean-Clément Texier

“At a time when financial globalisation in all sectors of the economy is causing an in-rush of hedge funds that increase primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary leveraged buy-outs ...>

Analysis on Europe: by Christian Rauch

Christian Rauch European Media Analyst Moody's Investors Service “When we look at 2006, we notice that public media companies have been the target for private equity firms. There was more speculation than real actions, but if you look at the VNU acquisition (The N ...>

Analysis on Germany / Europe: Q&A with Martin Fabel

Martin Fabel reports that German newspaper companies, like others in Europe, have done quite well at diversifying their operations – into book publishing, CDs, DVDs, events, and the Internet. ...>