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 December
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International News Briefs


Seinet signed a contract with Media 24 of South Africa to deliver the XTent publishing suite for the organization’s print and digital publishing needs.

The project will feature XTent Editor, which works with Adobe InDesign within the editorial environment. The project will also include XTent Catalog, a content repository for short- and long-term archiving of digital assets; XTent Flow for digital production workflow automation; XTent Print Publisher to print to Media 24’s different printing plants; and XTent Web Publisher to deliver content to the group’s portals.

www.seinet.es

 

Dow Jones & Co. renewed its five-year agreement with Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. (Nekkei) to share editorial resources. The two organizations will distribute news and financial content created by a 120-person newsroom in Tokyo for the next three years.

The agreement also includes the production of the Nikkei/Dow Jones Japan Report, a news service that’s distributed by Nikkei’s Quick unit, among other data vendors. In addition to Japanese, Dow Jones Newswires provides news services in 10 other languages throughout the world.

www.nni.nikkei.co.jp

 

Danish publisher Bornholms Tilende A/S will install a web offset press system from Tensor Group Inc.

Bornholms, which publishes the only daily newspaper on Bornholm Island, will deploy a 21-unit offset press early next year.

The press will be comprised of five, 1400 four-high towers and an associated mono unit. The publisher also purchased an H-50 heavy-duty jaw folder, five single-web turnbars with blowers and a footprint shaftless drive system.

The new press will allow Bornholms to triple its color capability and double its production capacity.

www.ustensor.com