Politiken Newspapers Ltd. signed a contract for a CCI NewsDesk 6 system, a move that will place its entire publishing operations on one common system.

For Politiken Newspapers, having the group’s major publications on a centralized system will provide journalists with a more efficient communication infrastructure as well as having content sharing inside and across newsrooms. The central CCI NewsDesk System will also make it possible for new products to be readily established, which could include anything from a new editorial desk to merely adding new users to existing products. The centralized editorial database will also provide the possibility of reusing and repurposing content to a range of various mediums such as the Internet.

Politiken Newspapers Ltd. in Denmark signed a contract for a CCI NewsDesk 6 system, a move that will place their entire publishing operations on one common system. The new editorial system will replace Politiken’s CCI NewsDesk Pagination 4 and their current editorial front end.
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“We chose CCI Europe because they provided us with the opportunity to have all our editorial staff working on one integrated system,” said Frank Stjerne, senior project manager at Politiken Newspapers. “The centralized system is easy to support and maintain, while the sophisticated functionality will provide greater opportunities to expand our printed product range and in turn offer a range of exciting new business opportunities.”

This is the second time CCI Europe and Politiken Newspapers Ltd. have worked together. The new editorial system will replace Politiken’s CCI NewsDesk Pagination 4 and their current editorial front end.

The previous history between the two companies has made the implementation phase of the project easy.

“CCI Europe has proven to be an astute business partner in the past. We feel confident that in purchasing a CCI system we have not only succeed in satisfying our current requirements, we have also formed a partnership with a market leader that is set to be at the forefront of the industry hopefully for a long time to come,” said Stjerne.

Politiken Newspapers Ltd. hopes to establish a more stable, cost-efficient platform that provides greater automation, minimizes downtime and conforms to industry standards across a broad range of applications with a combined editorial system.

Politiken Newspapers plans to use the system for both its national daily newspapers, namely Ekstra Bladet and Politiken and its online counterparts, while the system will have integration into a number of third-party applications. Politiken is a daily broadsheet newspaper with a circulation of approximately 147,000, while Ekstra Bladet is a daily tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 125,000.