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 ...>

Российские приоритеты-2008

Два минувших года стали рекордными по динамике и объемам медийных слияний и поглощений на российском рынке. Уверен, что при определении издательских стратегий и бюджетов на 2008 год большинство медиавладельцев обязательно будет соизмерять нынешнюю капитализацию своих актив ...>

Grabbing the long tail

Vin Crosbie, managing partner of Digital Deliverance LLC, contributed this Viewpoint on convergence in 2008. The English-language idiom “He Can’t See the Forest for the Trees” means someone is so preoccupied with the parts that he cannot perceive the whole. Ever si ...>

Challenges for convergence in 2008 and beyond

Dietmar Schantin is the director of IFRA Newsplex. A shorter version of this text appeared in the January 2008 issue of IFRA Magazine on page 29. In 2006 and 2007 many things changed in newsr ...>

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 ...>

Advertiser relations: Consultant Len Kubas on 10 things newspapers can do

We believe that newspapers can adopt many positive measures to will improve relations with advertisers that should result in more advertising revenues and more satisfied customers. 1. ...>

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 ...>

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 ...>

Cost savings: Q&A with Chuck Blevins, industry consultant

newspaper techniques: How are cost-reduction plans evolving at newspapers today? Chuck Blevins: One big issue is in implementing waste controls and presets on presses, bu ...>

New Readers: Interview with Imee Alcantara, Philippine Daily Inquirer

newspaper techniques: How important have these wireless projects been for your ability to attract new audience? Alcantara: Very high in importance. In fact, for 2 ...>

Mobile strategy: The mobile generation does not wait

The market shares of daily newspapers are decreasing slowly but continually. Diametrically opposed to this trend is the development of media services for the generation that has grown up with ...>

Ari Valjakka on "citizen journalism"

Ari Valjakka is editor in chief of Turun Sanomat in Turku, Finland. newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public to act as journalists, that you consider appropriate for a newspaper? Valjakka - ...>

De Volkskrant on "citizen journalism"

Pieter Broertjes is editor in chief and Arie Elshout is managing editor of de Volkskrant in Amsterdam, the nationwide newspaper of the Netherlands newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public to act as jour ...>

Paul Horrocks on "citizen journalism"

Paul Horrocks is editor of the Manchester Evening News in the United Kingdom newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public to act as journalists, that you consider appropriate for a newspaper? Horrocks>

Joe Breen on "citizen journalism"

Joe Breen is managing editor for production, presentation and design at the Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public to act as journalists, that you consider appropriate f ...>

George Brock on "citizen journalism"

George Brock is Saturday Editor of The Times (London). He is also the current president of the World Editor's Forum. newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public to act as journalists, that you consider a ...>

Martin Haslebacher on "citizen journalism"

Martin Haslebacher is managing editor of Berner Zeitung BZ, Bern, Switzerland newspaper techniques - What is an example of "citizen journalism," of using members of the public t ...>

Steve Yelvington on "citizen journalism"

Steve Yelvington is vice president of strategy and content at Morris Digital Works, the online division of U.S. newspaper group Morris Communications Co. He was one of the pioneers in new media in the 1990s as founding editor of award-winning online services for the Star Tr ...>

Free newspapers: Pelle Anderson's views on free papers in 2006

newspaper techniques: What are your thoughts on what to expect in the free daily newspaper global market in the coming year? Specifically, I am interested in whether you think la ...>

Free newspapers: Interview with Free Daily Newspaper website creator Piet Bakker

newspaper techniques: You began the Free Daily Newspapers website (http://users.fmg.uva.nl/ pbakker/freedailies) in August 2004, but when and how did you become interested in tracking free ...>

Advertisers want: Interview with Earl Wilkinson, executive director of INMA

nt: Do you dare to make a kind of prediction of where the advertising expectations are going for newspapers in the near future? Earl Wilkinson: This is an extreme ...>

Advertisers want: Interview with Peter Zollman, Classified Intelligence

nt: Do you dare to make a kind of prediction of where the advertising expectations are going for newspapers in the near future? Peter Zollman: Newspapers are goin ...>

Advertisers want: Interview with Mort Goldstrom, Advertising Manager of the NAA

nt: Do you dare to make a kind of prediction of where the advertising expectations are going for newspapers in the near future? Mort Goldstrom: No, I am not sure ...>

Advertisers want: Medinaveitia

Available only in Spanish técnicas de prensa: La mayor parte del dinero destinado a campañas publicitarias acaba invertido en el medio televisivo. ¿Por qué? ¿No ofrecen los periódicos lo que los anunciantes buscan? Eduardo Medinaveitia:>

Advertisers want: IKEA

Available in Spanish only técnicas de prensa: ¿Qué opina de los periódicos como soporte publicitario? Diaz-Guardamino: Como todos los medios, los periódicos tienen cualidades positivas y negativas, en función de las características y o ...>

Advertisers want: Naturgas

Available in Spanish only tdp: ¿Qué piden los anunciantes a los periódicos? Jon Arrieta: Llegar a un público objetivo determinado, a un precio ajustado. tdp: ¿Qué tres cosas deberían ofrecer los periódicos, para ganárs ...>

Cost savings: Q&A with Niko Ruokosuo

newspaper techniques: What are some of the ways you have kept your costs low? Niko Ruokosuo: The best dollar saved is the one that never gets spent in the first place. At Sanoma Kaupunkilehdet (a free sheet division of Sanoma), we have built ...>

New Readers: Interview with Poul Melbye

newspaper techniques: Where do you see your biggest potential new audience group? Poul Melbye: The biggest potential is what we call the young generation and that really comprises people between 25 and 40. The big issue is that they read les ...>

New Readers: Reader panels give consistent feedback

newspaper techniques: Could you say a little bit more about your role and what you do? Vincent Peyrègne: As Development Manager, I'm the head of the media rese ...>

Expanding the core business: Interview with Michael Weimar

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Expanding the core business: Interview with Günter Thiel, CEO of the PIN Group AG

The publishing houses Axel Springer, Georg von Holtzbrinck and WAZ have bundled their activities on the market for postal services by establishing a company, in cooperation with Rosalia AG (Lu ...>

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 ...>