Global Watch

At this year’s IFRA and DCX Expo, which was organised from October 8-10 in Berlin, ppi Media presented its restructured range of IT services, its self-service ad portal ‘AdSelf’, and its globally successful ‘Digital Assembly Line’ for…

Just about everything in Tyrone, a town of 5,700 in Blair County, 215 miles west of Philadelphia, seems to be a throwback, including its bustling downtown, home to a beloved candy shop, a few antiques stores, and its 152-year-old…

World Publishing & Digital Content Expo, which is scheduled from October 8-9 in Berlin, will witness ppi Media presenting the new features of its publishing solutions and its special range of tailored IT services. Production automation,…

US newspaper The New York Times has become the latest publisher to put up a registration wall, following extensive registration and log-on tests recently. Visitors to any of the publisher’s articles are now met by a request to keep reading…

In cooperation with ppi Media, the digital agency wigital from Kiel has published the kielometer app for both Android and iOS. It features hundreds of offers for restaurants in and around the state capital. kielometer started as a web…

A hyperlocal news network continues its expansion into a new city patch with the launch of its latest print title. The Bristol-based Local Voice Network has announced it will be launching its 19th publication in Bath. The network…

After a year of watching struggle of digital-only brands, News Corp has confirmed it is developing a news aggregation app and web site, provisionally branded Knewz. com. The app will reportedly link directly to the web sites of a wide range…

Quark Software in Denver has announced the availability of QuarkXPress 15.0.1. This is the first update to QuarkXPress 2019, which was released on July 9, 2019. Included in this update for QuarkXPress 2019 users are improvements to many…

SepThe Newcastle-based Sunday Sun’s 100th birthday special featured a 16-page supplement recalling a century of newspapers. It also celebrated 100 of the North-East of England’s greatest sporting heroes to mark the occasion. A piece by…

LA Times has introduced changes to the front and backend of its website to improve reader experience, in the wake of significant digital subscription shortfalls. In June 2019, a new-look LA Times website, together with its sister…

Illinois-based News-Gazette Media announced to employees that an agreement has been signed to sell substantially all of its assets to the family-owned Champaign Multimedia Group LLC, an affiliate company of Community Media Group. The…

German printer Sattler Media Group has purchased two LITHOMAN units in order to support the production site in Barleben. The high-volume presses for commercial printing help to increase the productivity, efficiency and flexibility of insert…

GFR Media, one of the leading communication companies of Puerto Rico, selects a ‘Front End’ retrofit, a closed loop inline Register Control System Soft Proof upgrade, and Controls Retrofit of their Goss COLORLINER and HEADLINER Presses by…

For the first time in its 141-year-old history The Washington Post has unveiled a new masthead on that will include a vice president of product — Kat Downs Mulder. As part of its product push, the company will launch a series of new,…

The Daily Telegraph, which is known as The Telegraph online, signed up more than 15,300 paying subscribers in August, the equivalent of nearly 500 each day on average. Press Gazette understands the figure is by some way the highest achieved…

In future, Minden-based newspaper Mindener Tageblatt will be relying on CTP output control and planning, page assembly and ad pagination solutions from ppi Media. This change is taking place in the context of involvement in a publishing…

DCOS Sweden AB has announced a substantial contract to retrofit the existing Bosch Rexroth drive system at OTM Avistryk Herning-Ikast A/S in Ikast, Denmark. The existing equipment consists of two GOSS Universal 45 presses, with a total of…

Quark Software in Denver has announced the availability of QuarkXPress 15.0.1. This is the first update to QuarkXPress 2019, which was released on July 9, 2019. Included in this update for QuarkXPress 2019 users are improvements to many…

London-based British daily national newspaper The Times has announced that they have employed an AI-powered ‘digital butler’ named JAMES to serve personalised news. The publisher uses machine learning to grow loyal audience by delivering…

View Newspaper Group and Michigan Web Press announce their acquisition of Daily News and Stafford Printing, both in Greenville. Founded in 2003 by Rick Burrough, View Newspaper Group will now include 19 community newspapers and a staff…