www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com March/April 2017 The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid production. GateHouse adopts unified platform for producing, sharing content u BY TARA MCMEEKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Photos: Newscycle & GateHouse GateHouse Media kicked off 2017 with a resolu- Security key tion to upgrade its Web CMS platform across more than Security for publishers has been a key factor to News- 400 websites serving some 35 million unique users. cycle as its products evolve. The move is based on a need to replace the “We are so conscious of the fact that news me- publisher’s legacy systems, which have been in place Center for News & Design dia are a prime target for cyber attack, so we chose for many years and no longer represent the most ef- Drupal 8,” Pete Marsh, vice president of marketing ficient news publishing technology. for the vendor told N&T. “That coupled with our Web “We are on a dated system that does not hosting gives us what we think is best practice — provide an adequate mobile platform to publish and GateHouse shared that belief.” news,” Christopher Biondi, senior director of digital Newscycle’s Onset is designed to be simple to development for GateHouse told News & Tech. “The use and fully responsive. The vendor developed 100 interface is not user-friendly and the print workflow modules on top of the Drupal 8 core, specifically for is not as efficient as it could be for the newsrooms.” news media organizations. Onset will be hosted in Those inefficiencies prompted GateHouse’s search the Newscycle Cloud, which is based on Amazon for vendors that could provide systems that were ro- Web Services. bust in mobile and print offerings as well as in security. Newscycle said Onset will streamline content “We selected to upgrade to Newscycle’s new GateHouse Media will manage more than 400 of its publica- tions’ websites with Newscycle’s Onset digital CMS platform. creation and publishing processes for all of Gate- Drupal 8-based Onset platform, believing it will set us House’s Web, mobile and print channels. In addition on the best path to continue to operate at scale and be as to its robust security benefits, “Drupal 8 has the potential nimble as we can as we grow and the media environment changes,” Biondi said. to evolve digital storytelling in a significant way,” Bill Church, senior vice presi- GateHouse was previously using the Newscycle’s Web platform the vendor dent of news for GateHouse said. “We are as intrigued with the entrepreneurial acquired through its 2013 merger with Saxotech. Newscycle continued on page 17 Reportory personalizes email newsletters u BY SARAH ZOOK MANAGING EDITOR Here at News & Tech we’ve been creating and parent company Landmark communications started pushing our own email Dateline newsletter since the Push always shopping its newspaper properties and Clark was early part of this century. left feeling like there had to be a better way to keep The email newsletter platform, popular in the “works over pull newspapers relevant. 1990s, is having a major resurgence. In a recent “Paper and people are just too expensive,” the — Tracy Clark founder ” study by Pew Research Center, 15 percent of readers of Reportory publisher told her at the time. consistently consume news through emails. And “I started thinking about business plans of how to cut back on costs,” Clark told News & Tech. “I about half of those are very loyal to that pathway. of receiving online news. thought everything is so manual and why are we do- Indeed, most news consumers — 65 percent, ac- “Push always works over pull,” said Tracy Clark, ing one product for everyone when everyone wants cording to the Pew study, are loyal to a specific way Reynolds Journalism fellow and something different? It just seemed super wasteful.” founder of Reportory, a personal- With the Internet and mobile technology grow- ized email platform for newspapers. ing at a rapid pace, it seemed like an opportunity to “Anyway a publisher or company personalize and automate. can push without annoying the user Clark attended business school and kept rumi- Turn to draws in readership.” page 33 nating on the best way to help newspapers toward Reportory is born more personalization. In 2011, working with her former editor from for expanded Clark started thinking of drawing The Roanoke Times, she decided to try to build a in readers right out of journalism platform that could personalize content. industry school. She attended the University “Every other industry was personalizing con- coverage of North Carolina’s School of Media tent and media. Just not the journalism industry,” and Journalism and began working she said. at The Roanoke (Virginia) Times One main component was separating them- News & Tech shortly after graduation. In 2008, March/April 2017 u 1 Reportory continued on page 6 www.newsandtech.com KBA-Digital & Web Solutions Possibilities, Expansion, Growth... 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EAE will convert the KBA Commander’s four-high tower to latest-generation EAE press controls and will connect it to the Colorman web press’ existing EAE control technology. “We’re increasingly frustrated by quality problems with the Signing of the contract in Landvetter (from vleft to right): Horst-Walter Hauer (Project Manag- old printing units, and we desperately need to take action to avert er, Hauer IBH Engineering), Erwin van Rossem (Head of Sales QI/EAE), Dan Eriksson (Tech- the mechanical failures that will otherwise be inevitable,” Dan Eriks- nical Director, V-TAB Landvetter), and Jarl Söderqvist (Piculell, QI/EAE’s Swedish agent). son, technical director of V-Tab, said. “The aim of this retrofit is Nordic printing group, V-Tab ordered a retrofit for its plant in to raise the quality benchmark and restore the reliability of our Landvetter, Sweden from EAE. production equipment.” Coldset Printing Partners plan massive retrofit Coldset Printing Partners ordered two partnership, we are convinced that Koenig new “double-width KBA Cortina” presses & Bauer will accomplish this task in admi- and a comprehensive retrofit program for rable fashion,” its existing KBA Commander line. The ret- This is be the first of six retrofits rofits are planned to go live at the CPP print planned. center in Paal-Beringen, Belgium sometime Meantime, Reiner Haseloff started within 2018 to 2019. up the new line of KBA Commander CL “It was especially important for us, that newspresses at Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, a we can obtain everything we need from a member of the DuMont media group. single source,” Paul Huybrechts, CPP man- “Long-term studies have shown that aging director said. “The biggest challenge people view daily newspapers as the most will be to coordinate the extensive retrofit credible of all media. They are seen as par- Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff and Bernd Preuße, managing measures perfectly with the installation of ticularly discerning, competent, objective director DuMont Druck, press the start button to bring the the new presses. But given our longstanding and critical,” Reiner Haseloff said. new Commander CL on stream. 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