Hindi daily Hindustan starts
modernisation journey in Bihar and Jharkhand
To deliver appealing quality product, facility upgradation is a constant process at HT Media. Recently, with the launch of a state-of-the-art printing plant at Patna, which was inaugurated by the chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar, Hindi daily Hindustan has commenced the modernisation journey of its facilities across Bihar and Jharkhand.
iPad: creating strange sense of
excitement and fear simultaneously
It was with some satisfaction that I listened to Steve Job’s announcement concerning the iPad on January 27. As I visited with attendees at a newspaper conference in Minnesota, the interest in the new device was evident as one publisher after another approached me to get my opinion on its potential effect on the newspaper industry. Rumors concerning the iPad were a favorite topic of technophiles over the past few months. Little did I know that the announcement would generate the excitement that it did. As I peruse the list of iPad features, I feel a strange sense of excitement and fear at the same time. Let me explain.
Malaysian printer continues boosting
business with Manugraph technology
After the Manugraph machine installation, we now have more confidence of our reliability and also the increase in our productivity gives us the opportunities of selling more time slots for other publishers,” commented Syamil Fahim B Mohd Fahim, executive director, Ultimate Print Sdn Bhd.
Newspapers: moving towards digital preservation
Digital preservation is a challenge which all major newspaper organizations and libraries are facing these days. What should be the future course of action for these organizations, was a major issue of discussion at IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010.
No better investment than in mailroom
Easy to create new revenue sources with Ferag technologies
Revenue generation is the most sought after activity in business and when it comes to the production in print media, postpress processing also offers the most interesting revenue sources. The justification of this proposition was reinforced by Ferag and WRH Marketing at a ‘Mailroom Rally’ in the new L’Imprimerie printing centre in Tremblay, near Paris, which highlighted ten ways to bring added value to the newspaper. SK Khurana, editor, All About Newspapers, who attended this rally, brings in a brief report.
The Hindu continues upgradation drive
Encouraged with growing online penetration and an emerging mobile market in India, The Hindu adopts an online-first publishing strategy on a CCI NewsGate platform.
IPEX 2010 Preview
Advanced newspaper technologies
to converge at IPEX 2010
State-of-the-art developed options within newspaper production segment apart from other print technologies and solutions shall be demonstrated for eight great days at IPEX 2010 (May 18-25) in the city of Birmingham in UK; where almost forty percent of floor space will be dedicated to pre-press and digital solutions suppliers, whilst press manufacturers and post-press companies will occupy around 34 percent and 26 percent of the exhibition, respectively. Over 550 stand holders are signed up, representing over 1,000 companies across more than 60,000 square metres of floor space; and more than half (55 percent) of the companies coming from overseas (over forty countries), notably from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, France, India, USA and China. While the show will witness almost all major players from newspapers industry including Baldwin, Ferag, Glunz & Jensen, Goss International, KBA, KK Printing Machines (India), Kodak, manroland, Mitsubishi, Muller Martini, NBG, to name just a few (whole list availing at: www.ipex.org), here is a brief about the exhibits from some exhibitors to be showcased at this global platform.
INMA Awards 2010 competition
Thirteen entries from six Indian newspapers
mark place among ninety finalists
Returning to the world’s advertising capital under the theme ‘How to make money by shifting to multi-media sales and content’, in the eightieth annual INMA World Congress at the Marriott Marquis in New York
IPEX and other trade shows
“Appropriately held trade shows will survive. Print shows are different from almost other exhibitions where cars, boats, equipment, etc are displayed but are static. Functioning equipment and live demonstrations with the noise, smell and look of the pressroom are very appealing. This must remain; we don’t want press ‘headstones’ to view or shows will become lifeless and dull. Printers want real world not virtual world viewing. The show is a place to see, compare and buy equipment, to review trends and network with suppliers and fellow printers,” says George Clarke, president of IPEX 2010 and managing director of Heidelberg UK, responding to questions about the significance of the Birmingham exhibition and trade shows in general.
MEDIA MATTERS IV
S(up)porting business
You won’t believe it. Let me spill the beans, nevertheless. I sat glued to the television set on a wintry January afternoon watching the Sri Lanka versus India 50-overs cricket match being played in Mirpur, Bangladesh. Nothing unusual for an Indian, where cricket is like religion. Except for channel surfing during commercial breaks, I was fixated with the proceedings of the match that ended in India’s favour – naturally much to my jubilation like any other Indian – from start to finish. I knew the ball-by-ball action of the tussle between the two pairs of playing eleven from across the Palk Strait. Yet twelve hours later, when the delivery boy dropped my quota of dailies at my doorstep, I picked them and quietly moved into the washroom – the best place to read anything undisturbed. Disappointment was in store when no news related to the previous night engagement merited page-one coverage. No doubt, adequate coverage was there in the sports section.
Media Matters-III
Bold and daring step
It’s an unusual but most desirable and daring move. Media, on both sides of Indo-Pakistan border, have felt a strong urge to bridge the gulf between the two neighbours 63 years after they had been sliced up by the British government for whatever reasons. The Times of India and the Jang group of Pakistan have come together under the banner of Aman Ki Asha (what a name!) in this direction.
World’s press 2010 gears up
First speakers announced for World Newspaper Congress
The global press events in 2010 are gearing up to be held for the first time in the Arab world. The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has agreed to open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, the global summit meetings of the world’s press, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from June 7-10 this year. Organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and hosted by the An-Nahar newspaper, these events are expected to draw 1,500 newspaper publishers, managing directors, CEOs, chief editors and other senior newspaper executives to Beirut. The Congress takes the theme ‘In search of the new business model’, while the theme of the Forum is: ‘The new information ecosystem: link, share, cooperate or die’.
Helping children go on-line safely:
new guide from WAN-IFRA
A guide for parents to help and protect their children when they use the internet, has just been published by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which is making it available, without charge, to newspapers world-wide to offer to their readers. The guide, run as an insert or series, is designed to help the newspaper become a media literacy ally of teachers and parents. It can also attract non-traditional partners to help with the finances to produce it.
World’s largest free newspaper
celebrates fifteenth year of innovation
Attracting a large audience in an increasingly fragmented media world
The best things in life are free. The ‘free’ concept is proving more relevant than ever and the best way to attract a large audience in an increasingly fragmented media world. Taking the advantage of this concept, Metro has become the biggest success story of the newspaper industry, with seventeen million daily readers in nineteen countries. Recently, Metro International, the international newspaper group, announced the fifteenth anniversary of the modern free daily newspaper.
Newspaper printing:
changing in innovative ways
While much attention is paid to the advances made by internet and other digital news delivery channels, traditional print technologies have been advancing as well. Though these developments often get less attention, they are just as significant for the future of the news business. That’s why the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is launching the Printing Summit, a new event bringing publishers, printing managers and production directors together for three days of presentations, discussions and exchanges on the new ideas and tactics that advanced printing technologies generate.
Stapled format facilitates double-spread
advertising beyond centre-spread
German business newspaper Handelsblatt reaping the advantages
Germany’s leading financial daily, Handelsblatt has become the first quality daily newspaper in the country to switch to a tabloid format. The sleek new compact look is accentuated by stapling, delivered by stitching manufacturer Tolerans, which makes the finished result even more reader friendly.
‘Stapling is a must
for the modern newspaper
And mankind will never abandon the printed newspaper,' these words of conviction come from Carlos Soria, newspaper design expert and chairman of the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. “But the physical quality must undergo a quantum jump,” he adds in an article published in WAN’s report “Innovations in Newspapers 2009”. Looking towards the future of the industry, Soria concludes that stapling is a must for the modern newspaper.
