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April
 2004





 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 














 

 



The Buffalo (N.Y.) News began printing sections on one of its two new Koenig & Bauer AG presses, according to the newspaper. Selected feature sections and three classified sections were printed. The presses will begin printing the entire newspaper in mid-May. As part of a tradition dating back 100 years, the president flipped the switch on the press’ initial live run. President George W. Bush joins former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt, who activated The News’ then-new presses in 1958 and 1904, respectively.

Dow Jones is close to finishing the rollout of Datastream Systems Inc.’s 7i enterprise asset management software. The app will let Dow Jones monitor equipment maintenance and parts inventories across its 18 plants.

The Chicago Tribune said it plans to beef up software and hardware used to for advertiser and circulation management, picking technology developed by Sun Microsystems Inc., AT&T and Nortel Networks. “With this project Chicago Tribune is responding to changing market demands and is leading the media industry in the use of advanced technology solutions,” Darko Dejanovic, vice president and chief technology officer, said in a statement.

A total of 53 journalists died in 2003, 15 of them in Iraq, according to the World Association of Newspapers’ annual report of journalists killed worldwide. Three countries, Iraq, the Philippines and Columbia, accounted for more than half the deaths. The 2003 death toll compares with 46 killed in 2002, 60 in 2001 and 53 in 2000, WAN said.

 

One year ago

The Journal Star in Peoria, Ill. agrees to purchase a MAN Roland GeoMAN 70 offset press.

 

Five years ago

Heidelberg Web Systems unveils plans for its first newspaper press, the Mainstream 80.

 

10 years ago

The Palo Alto (Calif.) Weekly teams up with Internet Distribution Services to put its content on the Internet hours before the printed paper is available.