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MAY
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Vendors express
frustration with publishers at Nexpo panel
WASHINGTON - Suppliers
wondering where all the Nexpo convention-floor traffic went and whether capital
improvement budgets were a thing of the past took the opportunity to vent their
concerns to a group of top publishing executives.
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Moozakis: Whither Nexpo?
Times Union to get new
facility
Hearst
Corp. last month said it will equip the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., with new
press, postpress and computer-to-plate equipment in a project to be completed by
the end of 2011
Prep sports scoring points
Last month,
CommunitySportsDesk, an offshoot of the Kenosha (Wis.) News, launched a hosted
service that allows local youth and recreation sports leagues to post schedules,
write game summaries, input stats and box scores and upload game and team
pictures to a newspaper-branded Web site.
Nexpo: AJC commits to CTP;
Naples picks postpress
WASHINGTON — There’s no question that 2008 is shaping up to be among the most
challenging years the U.S. newspaper industry has ever had to face. So it came
as little surprise that Nexpo 2008 suffered as well.
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Left to right, Michael E. Reed, chief executive officer, GateHouse Media Inc.;
Gary Pruitt, chief executive officer, The McClatchy Co.; George B. Irish,
president of Hearst Newspapers and William Dean Singleton,
vice chairman and chief executive officer, Media News Group Inc.,
after addressing Nexpo exhibitors.
Photo: Mary L. Van Meter
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Times Herald-Record does it itself with cutdown
Steve Stone (front), Times Herald-Record’s pressroom tech supervisor,
with Fred Stanton, production director, beginning the folder changeover.
Photo:
Times Herald-Record
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Times
Herald-Record goes it alone
Unlike
most papers with doublewide presses, the Times
Herald-Record did the press cutdown itself, saving
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process, according to Frederick J.
Stanton III, production director.
Quipp: ITW
'appealing' suitor
Quipp
Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Kady said the pending purchase
of the postpress vendor by Illinois Tool Works Inc. will result in a company
better positioned to invest in new technologies and serve customers.
Goss order
backlog up; units profitable
Goss
International Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bob Brown said the press vendor
earned a profit across all of its worldwide units and that the company is
bullish about the portfolio of products and services it's able to offer
newspapers and other printers.
FT hops on video
bandwagon
When the Financial Times in
2006 set out to establish a truly multimedia news organization, the publisher
considered every facet of its news operation, from reporting and editing to
production.
Candidates on same side of
press shield law
WASHINGTON — Presidential hopefuls Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Barack Obama
(D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) addressed attendees at separate events
during last month’s Capital Conference where each talked about the press and the
proposed shield law.
Clarity Media,
Conn. daily automate ad management
Dealing with hundreds of
advertisers across multiple properties is nothing new for newspaper publishers.
News&Tech radio
goes live with podcast service
WASHINGTON - Newspapers &
Technology last month launched News&Tech Radio in a venture aimed at further
expanding readership through its multimedia platform.
Star Tribune takes
personalized approach to Web
It’s already the city’s
dominant mass medium through its printed product. But now it’s exploiting its
online presence to give its readers and advertisers a more personal experience,
said Jason Erdahl, the Star Tribune’s executive director of interactive media
operations.
Yahoo details ad
management platform
Yahoo Inc. released more
details about its forthcoming advertising management platform aimed at allowing
advertisers and newspapers to buy and sell space online.
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