Kasturi Balaji is director of Kasturi & Sons, which publishes The Hindu in Chennai, India. Balaji joined the IFRA Board in 2008, and serves on numerous IFRA Committees. We spoke to him during a Board meeting in January.
Mohamed K. Alayyan is the owner and CEO of Jordan United Press, publisher of Al Ghad, Jordan’s most independent Arabic daily newspaper. Alayyan joined the IFRA Board in 2006. Here he discusses how his newspaper is dealing with the industry cr ...>
IFRA CEO Reiner Mittelbach discusses the association's new target-group-oriented structure with Editor in Chief Dean Roper, as well as how IFRA and the industry are dealing with today's challenges.
Editorial outsourcing is a hot topic in our industry. AAP business unit Pagemasters has shot to fame as it wins business globally. PANPA’s Brett Taylor meets its managing director Bruce Davidson to discover future plans.PANPA Bu ...>
Dietmar Schantin
Ante la crisis económica y la recesión, muchas editoras se plantean seriamente la reducción de costes en la redacción. En EE.UU. las empresas editoras han sufrido una ola de despidos. También en Gran Bretaña los e ...>
Saša Praprotnik, commercial manager of zurnal24.si, the news portal for Slovenian newspaper publisher zurnal24, will serve as co-chair of the IFRA South-East Europe Conference on 25-26 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia, along ...>
Dragan Vucicevic is chief editor of the Press Publishing Group in Serbia. The group publishes four printed editions: the daily Press, the regional business daily Biznis, a monthly magazine Fame, and a monthly tennis magazine Total Tenis. T ...>
Entrevista a Elan Lohmann, editor de News24.com, el primer servicio informativo on-line de Sudáfrica que está en manos de 24.com, propiedad de Media24, Naspers.
técnicas de prensa: Una de sus recientes creaciones e ...>
When we talk about the future of our industry we tend to concentrate on developments of the media and communication technology. But social developments will influence the media markets as well as technical developments. Who is going to use al ...>
by Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director, Deputy CEO
Is the change from broadsheet to compact newspaper formats a strategy that can help offset dropping reader numbers and advertising income? The results of an Ifra eye-tracking stu ...>
By Andy Williams, Ifra Research Engineer“Metrology, standardisation and conformity assessment are the pillars of knowledge for developing a technical infrastructure, and thereby enabling sustainable development and full p ...>
By Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director and Deputy CEO“RFID is not just a technical solution, but a philosophy. Even if the technical concept needs time to standardise further and become established, the philosophy is o ...>
newspaper techniques: Metro International just released results for their first quarter 2007. The Swedish operations that used to be the flagship of the group in terms of financial success are not doing well. Do you believe, as ...>
Available in French and Germantechniques de presse : Le Télégramme de Brest a lancé le 18 avril un journal télévisé quotidien (5 jours sur 7) sur son site Internet. Le « JTWeb » dure 5 à 7 minutes. Il e ...>
By Kerry J. Northrup
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 newspa ...>
New newsroom strategies for a changing audienceBy Dr. Dietmar Schantin, Director of Ifra Newsplex, schantin@ifra.com
Media convergence, cross media publishing, integrated newsroom – These terms have begun appearing in man ...>
I just received "newspaper techniques" [February 2007, FOCUS report on digital printing for newspapers]… I agree that the main obstacle to digital printing is the pricing policy of the digital printing manufacturers. The so-called "click char ...>
Un estudio de mercado diferente: un nuevo método de encuesta al lector en Internet permite a los periódicos informarse sobre qué artículos se leen y cómo se valoran. El periódico Saarbrücker Zeitung ha llevado a cabo un primer proyecto piloto ...>
The newspaper industry in the Middle East is in a healthy state and in a position to mobilise considerably more resources. Its possibilities to do so were the focal point of the two-day Middle East Conference of the international newspaper pu ...>
ReaderRating es un nuevo método de encuesta al lector en Internet, que permite a los periódicos informarse sobre lo que la audiencia piensa de sobre cada artículo. Además, puede ser utilizado por la redacción como una fácil herramienta de int ...>
By Ifra Research Manager Manfred Werfel
CIP4, JDF, IfraTrack and now also Prime Network -- these terms and names of organisations that deal with production and workflow control may cause confusion for a lot of people. Let us try to ...>
newspaper techniques:If everybody can be a journalist –how important is quality?Arend van den Berg: The most important task is to change news into relevant information for the audiences. A business paper shoul ...>
A report from the show floor of IfraExpo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director and Deputy CEO
At drupa 2000, KBA showed its Cortina compact press, the first waterless offset newspaper press, in pu ...>
Remarks by Ifra CEO Reiner Mittelbach on the occasion of the annual Ifra press conference at the opening of IfraExpo 2006:
“Every so often, Ifra re-examines itself – its strengths and where it could be stronger, where it faces compe ...>
by Michael Heipel, Director of Exhibitions, Ifra
A global media event, such as the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany, offers a good opportunity for experimentation to creative newspaper producers. This four-week football feast in a ...>
Since March, Thomson Financial, a US news agency specialized on finance information, has been using computers to generate finance news. The purpose is to be able to serve its clients as quickly as possible. newspaper techniques spoke with Mat ...>
Every time I start to demonstrate to an audience how useful the little Hewlett Packard CapShare handheld scanner can be for newspaper work, I know it isn’t fair and it isn’t nice. They are going to want one. And they can’t have it.
However ...>
By Manfred Werfel
When talking about newspaper printing we talk about single width and double width presses, CTP plate making an ink/water balance and the recently updated newspaper printing standard ISO 12647-3. All these technical ...>
by Philippe Bonnet
Ethical funds are just like any other funds. One of the world’s most famous index providers, Dow Jones, has selected 200 socially responsible and high-performing companies in the area of sustainable deve ...>
The Evening Echo in Cork, Ireland, printed a special edition in Cardiff, Wales, within one hour of the final whistle in the Heineken European Rugby Cup. According to Dan Linehan, chief executive of the Evening Echo, the newspaper used this hi ...>
técnicas de prensa: ¿Qué tipo de información ofrece El Planeta: la misma que cualquier otro periódico en Estados Unidos, pero en castellano o es una información de interés específico para la comunidad hispana de New England?
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La elaboración de un periódico diario es en circunstancias normales una tarea frenética y estresante. Intentar hacer lo propio bajo los efectos de una catástrofe natural es una misión que muy pocos adjetivos aciertan a describir, aunque los r ...>
by Manfred Werfel
The press manufacturers offer different concepts: Large 6/2 presses, small presses of low height, waterless presses with automatic plate change, total software controlled print processes and inline imaged plates. B ...>
Which CTP imaging technology for which operating conditions?By Uwe Junglas
Ifra Consulting Director
CTP is the established standard in all regions of the world.
In Western Europe, the market is saturated and it is acc ...>
Interview mit Vanja Tomac, Druckereidirektor von Novi list in Rijeka, Kroatien
zeitungstechnik: Novi list hat sich in der post-sozialistischen Zeit als selbstständige Zeitung behauptet. Sie stehen technologisch auf der Höhe d ...>
by Michael Heipel, Director of Exhibitions, Ifra
The good news first for all those who perhaps had doubts: Australia can become the 2006 World Champion! I will explain how in just a moment. But let’s start with a few fundamental wor ...>
newspaper techniques: You have analysed the costs and productivity of Macintosh computers and Windows PCs and presented the results as a research report. What prompted this project?
Andreas Pfeiffer: During previous re ...>
The German SAPRO company in Gutenacker, near Frankfurt, produces more than 2500 pages weekly for magazines and daily newspapers, making it one of the most highly productive composition companies in the German print media industry. Directors M ...>
By Dr. Dietmar Schantin
Trends in the worldwide media industry have clearly shown that in order to guarantee long-term success with the audience in the future, it will be vital to change from a single product-oriented to a multimedi ...>
By Manfred Werfel
Planning a new investment in presses and mailroom systems is not an easy task nowadays. There are so many different configurations, such as single or double or triple width presses, and technical options available ...>
técnicas de prensa:¿Cuál ha sido hasta ahora la reacción de lectores y anunciantes a este nuevo formato?Jon Housman: Las reacciones han sido muy positivas. En primer lugar, leemos todas las cartas y comentario ...>
Entrevista realizada a Antoni Cambredó, presidente de aede.
tdp: Entre los datos que se han presentado en el Libro blanco de la prensa diaria 2006, auspiciado por aede, se observa un repunte de la inversión publicitaria en prensa, que s ...>
La participación de los diarios en el consumo de medios se va resumiendo, de forma lenta pero segura. Exactamente lo contrario se constata en el campo de los servicios de medios para la generación que ha crecido con un teléfono móvil. 2006 ha ...>
En el año 2005, el catedrático Christof Seeger ha fundado en la Facultad de Medios (en Stuttgart), dentro del marco de los estudios de Publicación en los medios, la cátedra de Periódico y Revistas. Con sus 17 carreras y sus más de 3.000 estud ...>
You have successfully transformed your newspaper into tabloid format. Readers are happy, circulation is steady if not actually rising and advertisers are no more grumpy than usual. Printing stinks, but then it always did. What now? Can you po ...>
Salzburger Nachrichten Verlagsgesellschaft es una empresa mediana familiar que tiene su sede en Salzburgo, la capital del land austríaco que lleva el mismo nombre. Su principal producto se publica cada día en formato berlín y tiene una ...>
Los beneficios de la telefonía móvil todavía suenan como un término contradictorio. Y no sin motivo, pues las noticias constituyen sólo una pequeña porción del segmento de contenidos (de pago) y, por sí mismas, poco más que un sector secundar ...>
En general, el desarrollo de nuevos servicios móviles se ha estancado. Y esto, a pesar de la nueva tecnología y los avanzados teléfonos móviles. Sólo unos pocos mercados, como el finlandés, japonés y noruego prosperan realmente. ¿Por qué? La ...>
Gavin O’Reilly fue nombrado director general del grupo Independent News & Media PLC (INM) en diciembre de 2001. Se incorporó a este grupo en 1993 y desde entonces ha desempeñado diversos cargos: director de la división ‘páginas amarillas’ (19 ...>
Craig Newmark, fundador del popular portal estadounidense de clasificados Craiglist, saludó a los participantes de la conferencia Zeitung Online 05, organizada conjuntamente por Ifra y BDZV (Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger – Asociaci ...>
Durante dos días, el 23 y 24 de junio, se reunieron en Catania (Sicilia), alrededor de 180 representantes de las más importantes casas editoras de periódicos italianas, proveedores de la industria... en la conferencia Ifra Italia 2005. La rel ...>
Als Moderator der Veranstaltung am Samstag, den 9.Juli 2005 im Staatstheater Mainz hat man den bekannten Politologen, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Falter, Ordinarius für Politikwissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, gewinnen können, der ...>
Das Buch erschien zum 40jährigen Jubiläum der Ifra und gliedert sich in ein ausführliches Vorwort, das die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Zeitungen und der Drucktechnik von Anbeginn beschreibt, und die Geschichte der Ifra in chronologischer Abfol ...>
Con motivo del 400 aniversario del periódico, técnicas de prensa mantuvo una entrevista con Reiner Mittelbach, director general de Ifra, y Manfred Werfel, director de investigación de Ifra y subdirector general, sobre la relevancia de este ...>
La llegada de Publish Asia a Bangkok el pasado mes de abril acabó por convertirse en una de las convenciones más estimulantes de los últimos tiempos. Durante las distintas jornadas, siempre bajo la organización de Ifra Asia, se analizaron a ...>
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