Goss International Corp. said Canadian newspaper publisher Ladysmith Press added six Community SSC printing units to its existing Community pressline. Ladysmith prints 12 weekly and six daily newspapers with a weekly press run of more than 485,000 copies.

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Transcontinental Media Inc. said it purchased a Nova Scotian newspaper, The Springhill-Parrsboro Record. The acquisition brings to 170 the number of Canadian community newspapers the company owns.

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The News-Times in Danbury, Conn., relaunched its Web site, using features developed by MediaNews Group Interactive.

www.newstimes.com

INDUSTRY

The Detroit Media Partnership LP sold the downtown production plant formerly used to produce the Detroit Free Press. The group sold the 300,000-square-foot building and 22 acres surrounding it to the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy for an undisclosed amount believed to be less than $20 million, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. DMP produces both the Free Press and Detroit News in an upgraded production site in suburban Sterling Heights.

Chilean publisher La Segunda began printing The New York Times International Weekly. The publication will appear each Thursday.

Tesa Tape Inc. was presented with a 2007 Vendor of the Year award by AIM Supply. Tesa said it’s the second time in three years it received acknowledgment for its efforts by AIM, a distributor of maintenance, repair and overhaul products.

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POSTPRESS

Trinity Mirror tapped vR Systems AG to install a stripping and preparation line at the publisher’s Watford, England, production site.

The project will link Trinity Mirror’s ASRS outfeed to an existing AGV system. vR, formerly known as Metso/Von Roll, said the system will be installed in the spring.

The line will also include a semi-automatic stripping station connected to a shredding unit and to an EcoPrep robot fully automated prep station. This will permit Trinity Mirror to assign only one operator to manage stripping, role prep and waste paper removal.

NEW MEDIA    

Gannett Co. Inc. selected thePlatform to install its back-end management software to oversee the publishing of online videos to its various Web sites. As part of the agreement, thePlatform will serve as the central distribution hub to syndicate video content among Gannett sites.

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Johnston Press selected g8wave Holdings Inc. to oversee a mobile marketing strategy designed to encourage readers to interact with its U.K.-based newspapers.