The St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press signed a contract to install Digital Technology International’s NewsSpeed 6 editorial pagination and NewsSpeed Archive apps. Both products are part of DTI’s Liquid Media publishing suite.

Prior to NewsSpeed, the News-Press’ page layout was performed using QuarkXPress and editing was done in Microsoft Word.

In NewsSpeed, images and pages are stored in a cache post-relational database. The multidimensional architecture of the database makes it suitable for media organizations that distribute content to a variety of mediums, DTI said.

Reporters and editors at the News-Press will use 30 seats of SpeedWriter, DTI’s text editing application integrating Adobe InCopy CS2 to compose and edit stories. Designers will use 21 seats of PageSpeed, which includes Adobe InDesign CS2, to create and layout pages.

“The DTI system... includes several features that we believe will save time and allow us to track the progress of stories and pages through the system,” said Jessica DeHaven, Lifestyles editor at the News-Press. DTI’s PlanSpeed will handle editorial and display advertising planning and pagination. The app will interface with the News-Press’ display advertising software to bring ads into DTI’s pagination system.

In addition to implementing NewsSpeed, the News-Press plans to transfer all archived data from its Stauffer Text Archive system and CD and DVD repositories, to the NewsSpeed Archive, improving the ability to rapidly search and use archived content, DTI said.