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 June
 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 



 

 


The Chicago Sun-Times said it would deploy advertising and circulation software from Data Sciences Inc. The newspaper will use DSI/Circulation and DSI/Advertising to help oversee marketing and promotion. The apps, which run on top of an Oracle database, will be installed at the same time, DSI said.

British daily The Independent, which last year became the first newspaper in the world to produce tabloid and broadsheet versions of its daily editions, converted to a tabloid-only format. The newspaper (daily, 260,000) last Sept. 30 began offering commuters a tabloid edition that mirrored the content of its broadsheet counterpart in a bid to boost readership, said Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief (see Newspapers & Technology, November 2003). Independent News and Media Ltd., which publishes the daily, said a 16 percent spike in readership convinced management that readers preferred the tabloid format. The last broadsheet edition of the paper appeared in early May.

Metro New York made its Manhattan debut. The free tab, produced by Metro International and distributed Monday through Friday, is expected to have a circulation of more than 300,000 when rollout is complete. The New York edition joins two other Metro papers, one in Boston and the other in Philadelphia.

Circulation among the United States’ 10 largest newspapers barely budged over the last six months, according to statistics released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations measuring subscriber levels as of March 31, 2004. USA Today remained in the top spot with a circulation of 2.64 million, slightly above the 2.61 million copies the paper distributed during the last survey.  The other papers in the top 10: the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, (New York) Daily News, the Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Dallas Morning News.

 

One year ago

The Butler (Pa.) Eagle goes live with its hybrid Uniliner, purchased from Goss International Corp. and becomes the first U.S. newspaper to use a double-wide press that blends heatset, coldset and multiple web widths in a single pressline.

 

Five years ago

Digital Technology International parent company, Oldham Associates, acquires DPS Typecraft Ltd.

 

10 years ago

The Daily Journal Corp. purchases Advanced Publishing Technology ACT editorial and pagination software for its 30-station San Francisco office.