Listín Diario, located in Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic, has selected Digital Technology International’s NewsSpeed editorial publishing suite to replace its Atex J-11 editorial system.

DTI’s archive solution SpeedLibrarian will also be implemented along with PageSpeed Web Publisher. Other titles also to be produced using NewsSpeed include Ultima Hora and El Expreso.

Listín Diario was the first newspaper in Latin America to be printed on an offset printer system. The paper continues to take advantage of the latest technologies available.

One of the reasons DTI was chosen was because of the close integration of its applications with Adobe products. PageSpeed, DTI’s page design and layout application, utilizes the design tools of Adobe InDesign 2.0.

SpeedWriter incorporates InCopy 2.0.

“The true WYSIWYG editing and H&J features are what stuck out most in my mind when evaluating the system,” said Manuel Alvarez, information technology director of Listín Diario. “DTI’s system had all the features we were looking for in an editorial system.”

PageSpeed Web Publisher will be used to electronically publish stories and photos to the Web. The system will allow stories to be scheduled and assigned a priority to indicate their location on the Web site.

SpeedLibrarian will be used to archive stories and photos. Stories and photos will move from the production databases to the archive databases automatically and the archives will be available to every user.

NewsSpeed is a cross-platform system. Listín Diario will utilize both Mac and PC workstations. The 103 SpeedWriter seats to be used by reporters will be installed on PCs, while the editors and page designers using 55 PageSpeed seats will work on Macs.

Listín Diario has a daily circulation of 90,000. Ultima Hora has a daily circulation of 110,000 and El Expreso has a daily circulation of 160,000.