drupa 2012 roundup

One thing is for sure: print is and will long continue to be essential. However, the technologies and markets change. Digital printing is making advances and inroads into more and more areas – at the expense of the offset process. But for now nothing is about to change for the predominant newspaper production process. Presses, however, are becoming more modular, compact and attractively priced. Will that be sufficient to overcome the general reluctance to invest?

Paywalls paying off?

As hundreds of publishers around the world are launching digital subscription plans, particularly in the US, Digital Media Europe (DME) offered an ideal time and place to examine how the different models are working so far.

Finding the face behind your products – RP style

As newspapers continue to extend their brands across an array of platforms and reach completely new audiences, the task of putting a “name and a face” to some of these invisible consumers grows larger by the minute.

German regional daily creates ‘Dialog’ with clients

Mexico’s media tragedy

In March 2012, a WAN-IFRA working mission to Mexico City preceded the holding of a Media in Danger workshop in the city of La Jolla, California, which gathered journalists from Mexico, Central America, Russia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Balkans to share experiences of reporting from some of the world’s most dangerous environments.

Liberian president endorses Declaration of Table Mountain

WAN-IFRA has welcomed Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s commitment to press freedom after her public endorsement of the Declaration of Table Mountain.

Member profile: Svenska Dagbladet

A couple of years ago, thanks to an emphasis on intensive and ongoing planning efforts, Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) decided to take a step that would be quite daring for most daily newspapers: Two-thirds of the paper’s night and weekend staff were moved to weekday daytime shifts and only a handful of employees continued to work at night.

Michael Golden and Trevor Ncube: Two of a kind

Michael Golden and Trevor Ncube are two prominent publishing executives on their respective continents: Golden is the Vice Chairman of the New York Times Company and Ncube is Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings in Harare, Zimbabwe. Both will be speaking at the World Newspaper Congress in Kiev (2-5 September) and they took the time to talk to us about the different challenges and opportunities they each face.

Newsroom strategies: Mobile, video and social

As newsrooms move into the near future, we are seeing a greater concentration on producing mobile and video content as an increasing number of readers access online editions, as well as an intensified use of social media to inform readers of breaking news, engage with them and allow them to participate in the reporting process, according to speakers at the latest International Newsroom Summit Conference.

PRISA’s digital drive for consumer bliss

From the Department of Health and Human Services of the municipal administration of the City of New York, where he was director of information systems for five years, Kamal Bherwani landed in Spain in January 2010 to take charge of the digital transformation of the multimedia PRISA Group, also publisher of the daily newspaper El País. The goal? Updating the traditional business model of the group and make it a consumer-oriented company. How? Through technology.

Developments

Ready for pilot project, Springer’s digital revenues close in on newspaper’s, Metro Moment with ScoopShot, Buffett buys 63 more newspapers

Industry updates  

Orders and installations for ABB, Atex, Ferag, Goss, Glunz & Jensen and more and lots of cooperations

WAN-IFRA Bulletin 

Publish Asia 2012: Bullish mood in Bali

India set for digital boom

WAN-IFRA América Latina Conference

Media development: Cutting-edge research for emerging markets

World Publishing Expo, XMA 2012 open for entries

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