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02.2009
Systems
Two of the biggest systems vendors at IfraExpo this year are set up literally across the aisle from each other. The rest are not far away. And all of them are looking over their shoulders as they try to keep up with and anticipate the new ...>01.2009
Decision-makers' guide 2009
Not surprisingly, in the absence of reliable forecasts for their next year’s revenues, the participants in our annual survey of budget priorities for 2009 go for “reducing costs.” To sum up, the objective is to do a lot more with fewer res ...>12.2008
Business Report 2008
The financial crisis has taken away any likely hope from media companies of restoring their revenues during the second half of the year. The newspaper industry has survived other recessions, but this one is proving to be infinitely more probl ...>11.2008
Future Press
Newspapers are usually thought of as print media, but it would be more accurate to recognise them as paged media.After all, it is the paged presentation of news and advertising that really defines the newspaper product, that disti ...>
10.2008
Extreme Study Tour
About 20 years ago, Gannett experienced some of its best times. Although it has lost some of its shine due to the difficult economic situation, this North American group remains a bastion of the news publishing industry. Meanwhile, new “s ...>09.2008
Hyper Local
We spoke with about a dozen people who run hyper-local websites, and here is a step-by-step process you can follow once you have decided to take the plunge.>07.2008
User groups
User groups are as vital today as ever. Online communications have indeed expediated networking, but nothing replaces the preferred face-to-face exchanges user group meetings provide. Unfortunately, the economic issues troubling publishers ...>06.2008
Russia
Since 1985, the press in Russia has undergone massive changes in both business models and working methods. In the past 10 years, Russian publishers have made tremendous progress. Economic and industrial forecasts suggest longterm, stable ...>06.2008
drupa 2008 report
drupa is not known as a newspaper exhibition, but there was indeed ample innovation for those searching for newspaper solutions. For sure, this show will be tagged the “ink-jet” coming-out party as this technology attracts greater intere ...>04.2008
Publishing Green
Climate change and what can be done to prevent it are constantly in the news. But what about the newspapers themselves? Faced with the likely prospect of stricter environmental legislation worldwide, newspaper companies feel compelled to ...>03.2008
Mobile workflows
Publishers have a variety of mobile resources available to help them streamline some of their most essential internal workflows – including collecting and filing news and information as well as improving the delivery process. These tools ...>02.2008
Search engines
Journalists must know how to raise the information treasures hidden in the Internet and ensure that their own content is easy to find on the web. For newspapers themselves, the Internet advertising market probably determines their future ...>08.2007
Citizen journalism
The revolution of citizen journalism does not only suppose the eagerness of consumers to participate in the creation of content, but also a deep change in the rules of traditional journalism. Editors are still uncomfortable facing the rise of ...>07.2007
Human resources
So what is the key to keeping the best of the best? How do you motivate managers to hone their skills and stay with the company? Or is it simply a matter of money? “You can pay people a lot of money, but somebody can always pay them more ...>07.2007
Newspaper formats
Format says nothing about the quality of a newspaper. Therefore its importance should not be overrated. Despite this, the question of format is by no means without significance – on the contrary! Customer-friendliness, production safety ...>06.2007
Newspaper design
Driven by the need to remodel themselves in order to offer a product capable of satisfying the needs of their customers as well as to face the challenge from their many competitors, some daily newspapers are redefining their concept and s ...>05.2007
Quality
Product and service quality is frequently cited as the foundation of quality at newspaper publishing houses. Put simply, the ISO 9001:2000 international standard defines quality as the capacity to evaluate customer satisfaction and take i ...>05.2007
Simply advertising
Today, media convergence has become daily practice at most publishing houses. Media businesses worldwide have recognised that news offered through different channels – in a form adapted to suit the concerned medium in each case – achieve ...>04.2007
New markets
Nearly every day, new products and services hit the market aimed at those elusive consumers not attracted to the traditional print newspaper. As publishers learn more about who these potential customers are, they are also getting more eff ...>04.2007
CRM
Differentiation is one of the challenges facing the newspaper industry today. Where traditionally, a regional paper, for example, might have been pretty much the only source of news for many people in its area, today it is facing competi ...>03.2007
Scenarios
newspaper techniques asked a group of the industry’s most innovative thinkers to put themselves in the mind of some future executive faced with a sudden drastic change in how newspapers are published and do business. “What if...,” ...>03.2007
RFID in newspapers
RFID (radio frequency identification or radio identification) is not something new. Indeed, this technology is already used for tasks as varied as tracking luggage at airports or books in libraries, the starting-up of vehicles, automatic ...>03.2007
Web 2.0
Don’t be fooled by the name. Web 2.0 is not a product, nor is it a technology, and despite the hype it is not a revolutionary new step forward. It is a marketing friendly umbrella name for an ongoing evolution in the way people are using th ...>02.2007
Digital printing
Throughput speeds are increasing, printing quality is good, colour printing is possible and even costs are showing positive trends. Users and manufacturers are developing concepts and starting projects for new areas of application, such ...>02.2007
Newsroom reorganisation
The continuously growing popularity of the Internet combined with declining circulations at most dailies around the world have meant that newsroom convergence efforts have been talked about and in the works at various levels at many news ...>11.2006
Workflow
Some say that it is just a matter of time for the newspaper industry to reach the level of total integration of all production systems that other industries have already put in place. This global workfl ow management system, which newspap ...>11.2006
New Media
Technologies that had been of interest mostly just to new media geeks and early adopters are to be found throughout IfraExpo this year. Front-line system vendor CCI Europe is one of at least two exhibitors demonstrating e-reader integrati ...>08.2006
Mailroom
For newspaper printing plants, the decisive criteria for equipping a new mailroom, or modernising an existing one, can be counted on the fingers of one hand: capacity/processing speed, production safety, flexibility, efficiency and real net ...>08.2006
India Hotbed
The booming economy of India has been widely reported in the mainstream press for the past few years. Indian newspapers are reaping the benefits of this incredible growth, as circulations rise to record levels. Reaching a large untapped r ...>05.2006
Branding
Newspaper publishers put a great deal of time, effort and money into news gathering, production and distribution. However, publishers frequently seem to forget that they also need to market their product. In the past, this lapse was more ...>04.2006
Automation
A century after the automobile industry, newspapers are enjoying the benefits of automated production lines. Not only does this lower costs, but above all improves the quality and repeatability of the results. In addition, it relieves emp ...>08.2005
Wire services
For decades wire services mainly concentrated on providing newspapers with text and images for their print editions. However, the increasing use of the Internet is radically altering the expectations of the modern news consumer, who has ...>06.2005
