Global Watch

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…

World News Media Congress 2019, which was held from June 1-3 at Glasgow, hosted Camila Jimenez Villa, CEO & Co-Founder, The Immigrant (USA), who revealed the most of a new opportunity. In today’s all-out streaming war, where platforms…

For some advertisers, appearing next to a negative news article that describes a nasty terrorist attack or leans too much to one side of a polarizing political debate, will always be a hard no. But Prisa Media, the Spanish and…

The Siebold Company (TSC) has been appointed as the authorised agency of QIPC-EAE in the Caribbean and Canada. TSC is in full of praise for QIPC’s state-of-the-art and register control systems and EAE’s press control systems. TSC has a…

TIME magazine’s digital staffers are seeking to unionise, breaking down a barrier at the organisation between print and digital wings of the publication. The magazine’s print employees have been unionised for 80 years through the NewsGuild,…

Siegener Zeitung, founded in 1823, is the first newspaper house to start production with a new GEOMAN e:line. The press was designed to the newspaper’s individual needs and economics. With numerous configurations available, the GEOMAN…

Summer is fleeting, as is the summer newsletter of The New York Times. It is returning for its second year. In the intervening winter months, the newspaper surveyed readers and applied what they learned to the newsletter’s second summer —…

While many leading US publishers like BuzzFeed and Huffington Post have been forced to scale back international operations lately, digital media publisher PopSugar is on a growth spurt in the UK. The women’s lifestyle publisher has just…

According to the latest emma (Enhanced Media Metrics Australia) data, over 10 million Australians (10.1 million), or more than half the country’s population (54 percent), read both print and digital news media. In total, digital news media…

The Boston Globe, a local daily founded and based in Boston (Massachusetts), reached a milestone when the number of its digital subscribers surpassed that of its weekday print subscribers for the first time. It marked the only traditional,…

GateHouse Media has agreed to acquire the daily New Jersey Herald from family-owned Quincy Media. Headquartered in Perinton (New York), GateHouse Media is a holding company for New Media Investment Group and one of the largest publishers of…