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Newspapers make strides with AR in ’18 u by Tara McMeekin Contributing Writer Over the past year a number of image that launched a fireworks display for readers. newspaper publishers have ventured Mitchell worked closely with Strata and the company’s CEO John Wright into augmented reality. to help tailor the solution to newspaper publishers and offer it to them for a “This is the first time that we’ve fraction of what it would cost them to develop apps on their own. He then crossed the digital divide where began talking to other publishers about the benefits. He believes AR technol- your newspaper becomes the gate- ogy holds tremendous value in terms of luring advertisers back to newspapers way — and it all plays off the printed by giving them the ability to layer video, audio and other features behind a product,” Jack Mitchell, publisher of print advertisement. Northern California’s twice-weekly Ledger Dispatch told News & Tech. Spreading the word Mitchell has been championing In June, Mitchell met Yankton (South Dakota) Daily Media owner Gary Wood the use of AR by publishers ever during a conference and the two discussed AR. Wood quickly got onboard since the Ledger Dispatch launched and two months later, on August 14, his flagship Yankton Daily Press & Dako- Using the Interactive News code in a smartphone its own AR experience platform in tan launched its own iteration of Interactive News. camera prompts readers to download the app. February. He formally presented the “We aim to always be ahead of the curve and I loved the idea of putting the technology to the California News ability to bring news, sports and ads to life right at our readers’ fingertips,” Publishers Association not long after. The Ledger Dispatch’s Augmented Real- Wood told News & Tech. “We had 178 downloads on day one.” ity News App is powered by the Interactive News platform. Utah-based AR Both Mitchell and Wood said the ease of use is one of the most appealing technology innovator Strata developed Interactive News. things for newspapers. The Interactive News AR platform can be deployed With the Ledger Dispatch’s app, readers can trigger images to access deep- without the need for additional staff. er content. For example, readers can hold their smartphone, enabled with the “We can put 12 interactive stories together in about 30 minutes,” Wood app, over the paper’s masthead to get an audio recap of the day’s news. Or, said. “Most of the video can be shot on cell phones and then we also use they can hold their smartphone over a restaurant ad and instantly book a din- some of our higher-end cameras for news and sports, too. It’s so easy that ner reservation. Over the July Fourth holiday, the Ledger Dispatch featured an AR technology continued on page 5 Manroland Goss Group focuses on customer-oriented solutions u by Mary L. Van Meter News & Tech Editor and Publisher Chicago – Manroland Goss web systems CEO Wassermann was named CEO with the merger sermann told conference attendees. Alexander Wassermann talked to attendees of the in August. He specializes in developing strategies “I absolutely believe that this is an industry ING conference, held Sept. 28–29 at The Hyatt Re- for engineering companies in declining markets where still a lot of money can be earned for all of gency in Chicago. and steering their transitions into service compa- us,” he said. “We are here to help you earn that nies. money and that is what our vision is all about,” At the conference, he addressed he told ING attendees. “We are absolutely com- the company’s recent merger and mitted to this industry. “Not so surprising is that trends in the industry. Below is a the merger between Goss and manroland has been Turn to sampling of what Wassermann on the table many times. This is actually the fifth said. attempt to merge the companies over the last 20 page 33 “The newly-merged manroland years,” he said. for expanded Goss company will share a com- “The history of both companies means a lot of mitment to web-fed printing, mail- different press manufactures have merged into this industry room, and finishing solutions with group and we have retained all the intellectual coverage a global service advantage,” man- property of those companies. We can offer parts, roland Goss CEO Alexander Was- Manroland Goss continued on page 6

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ABB-Ad_Newsandtech_228x276_a.indd 1 21.07.2017 07:51:57 uIndustry News Gannett orders retrofits for two U.S. print sites Gannett has placed orders with ABB for press control retrofits and up- to Release 6. The commissioning of the systems in Milwaukee will begin grades at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in Wisconsin, and North Jersey around the middle of 2019. Media in Rockaway, New Jersey, according to ABB. The second order is for the North Jersey Media print site in Rockaway, The order for the Milwaukee site, which prints on a KBA Commander where Gannett’s The Record and other newspapers are printed on WIFAG press, will see the original KT94 and MR93 control systems on three printing evolution 371 and Mitsubishi Lithopia presses. ABB will be replacing the towers replaced with ABB’s AC500 PLC. ABB will be using its adapter solu- press control system on the Wifag press, including those units on the printing tion for this upgrade — the new control systems are mounted on footprint- towers, folder and reelstands. The original “Platform Plus” controls from Wi- compatible adapters that mean that the new systems occupy exactly the fag will also be replaced. The new solutions are based again on the industry- same space and have exactly the same connections as the original systems. standard AC500 PLC. The Journal Sentinel will also be upgrading its ABB MPS Control Consoles The commissioning will begin in spring 2019. to the latest version based on ABB’s Compact Product Suite HMI. At the In addition, ABB, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, will be upgrading same time their MPS Production press management system will be upgraded the control consoles on both the Wifag and Mitsubishi presses. Five Indian printers working with QIPC QIPC is working with five Indian printers: Ka- of QIPC-EAE India. “These orders also involve The order Saraswati Press placed with QIPC lptaru Offset, Natraj Print House, Saraswati Press three different types of machines.” consists of four different projects, all of which will and Hexagon Print & Pack, according to a press The work for Kalptaru Offset involves an mRC- be carried out at the Kolkata printing plant. release from QIPC. 3D system for color register and cut-off control The job for Hexagon Print & Pack, in Mum- The Dutch specialist in measuring and control installed on a TPH Orient press. In total, two cam- bai, involves an mRC-3D color register system equipment for the printing industry is supplying eras are involved. installed on a TPH Orient press. Sanat Printers is the Indian printers with various mRC-3D systems Natraj Print House will also equip its Pressline having a new mRC-3D system for color register for color register control. press with an mRC-3D system for color register and cut-off control installed on its Harris M600 “Every press and printing company is different, and cut-off control. This also involves two cam- press. of course,” said Rakesh Dave, managing director eras. Engle Printing Company turns to DCOS for upgrade Pennsylvania-based Engle Printing Company has contracted with “As printers struggle to make their presses more efficient and easier to DCOS Sweden for a press automation upgrade on one of their existing Tensor operate, this is a very important project for DCOS in the United States as it T400BE presses. demonstrates the full capacity of our press register, density and cutoff inspec- The Tensor T400BE press configuration is four towers and one folder. The tion and automatic control capabilities,” says Ron Ehrhardt, sales director, existing WPC register system will be replaced by eight CRC4 closed-loop Americas, for DCOS. density/register control cameras. The folder will be equipped with four PCT4 The installation is scheduled to be completed by the end of November cut-off cameras. For ink density control, DCOS will integrate the CRC4 cam- 2018, according to DCOS. eras with the existing Perretta remote ink system. Norway’s Agderposten Trykk contracts with DCOS Norway-based newspaper printer Agderposten newspapers, and commercial work. fices in Illinois, will install the control components Trykk has contracted DCOS for a major automa- The overall scope of the project involves sepa- to handle the quality functions of the press along tion upgrade of their Goss Magnum press, involv- rating the quality functions (ink, water, register with three operator desk touch screens, a printing ing partial retrofit of the existing Goss Omnicon and web tension) from the Omnicon system, framework software package including presetting system, and adding a DCOS closed-loop inspec- which eliminates the need for the Goss WebCen- and pre-press interface and its Inspection System tion system. ter production management system, according to (eighteen CRC4 cameras) for closed-loop control The nine towers, three folder Goss Magnum DCOS. The existing Quad Tech Multicam system of the quality functions. press-line installed in 2006 produces over 10 mil- will be replaced and the existing Baldwin spray A first phase was completed in September. The lion copies per month. This includes printing six system will be integrated. second phase will take place next month. of its own newspapers, contract printing for other DCOS, headquartered in Sweden with U.S. of-

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AR technology from page 1 single-copy locations in the near there was no learning curve.” future, according to Wood. Strata CEO Wright said the technology is really about the miracle of the “The intent is to make those smartphone. The Interactive News app can be downloaded for Apple and single-copy locations more in- Android and he said the technology works best with smartphones that are no teractive and leverage this for more than two years old. some self-promotion,” he said. “The newspaper simply places a trigger image and can then layer elements “Newspapers are still the only into that image and it allows you to do things you couldn’t do prior to AR,” complete local news source for he said. “This is more than the paper coming alive; it gives newspapers the our communities and surround- capability for a direct connection with their customers for the first time.” ing regions, and this technology can help us go after those outly- The power to engage ing markets where other papers In addition to positive advertiser reaction, Wood said readers of all genera- This AR-enabled advertisement in the Ledger Dispatch have pulled back.” (California) for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” allowed read- Although AR is not completely tions want to engage with AR features. ers to preview the film’s trailer, see show times and “We had an 80-year-old reader who came in and asked for help using it, purchase tickets, all from their smartphone. new to publishers (The Philadel- and we showed him how to download the app and use it, and he left here phia Inquirer became one of the very excited,” he said. “We are reaching young and old alike and it’s been fun first to use AR in May 2012 when it published photos that launched interactive to see the positive reaction.” features), advancements in platforms and smartphones have proven that the tech- Strata CEO Wright said AR technology is so engaging because it capitalizes nology could be a successful marriage of print and digital. on the power of the human senses. “All communities are unique in terms of opportunities to present content “AR triggers three of your five senses — sight, sound and touch,” he ex- and what I am doing here is different than what Jack is doing at the Led- plained. “Science tells us that when three senses are triggered, we don’t for- ger Dispatch, “ Wood said. “But no matter how you’re doing it, newspapers get an experience.” are still the lifeblood of the community and this technology helps to further strengthen that position.” Exciting possibilities Wood said the Press & Dakotan also plans to use the technology to capital- In addition to audio and video elements, the Ledger Dispatch and the Press ize on its unique market position with expanded local coverage in its Monday & Dakotan are excited about leveraging some of the other unique benefits of editions. For Mitchell’s part, he said he’s excited to continue imagining new Interactive News. Mitchell said the Ledger Dispatch would soon give its read- and creative ways to lure advertisers back to print. ers the capability to translate content into some 30 different languages. The “This is the first time that we’ve crossed the digital divide where your newspa- Press & Dakotan, meanwhile, intends to implement AR on rack cards at its per becomes the gateway,” he said. “And it all plays off the printed product.” p REMOTE INK CONTROL • Reduce Waste • Reduce Make Ready Time • Improve Quality • True sliding segmented blade offers precise and consistent metering of ink film • ROI in less than 2 years— Boost your bottom line • Custom fit solutions for all press profiles

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Manroland Goss from page 1 will stop build- types and brands of web presses. The engineering service and maintenance to those presses if there ing new presses teams based in Durham, Preston and Augsburg is a need. On the newspaper side, the group will in Durham and will allow us to offer more efficient solutions,” continue to keep the Uniset, Colorman and Geo- will consolidate he said. man presses in the portfolio. Due to the strong the new press relationship with China, we will also retain the business to Augs- Service solutions ability to deliver the Magnum, Magnum Com- burg,” Wasser- “With its increased presence of international pact and Community press portfolio,” Wasser- mann said. service hubs spanning the globe, the manroland mann said. “We are not going to develop new “But the new Goss merger has allowed us to create an even presses, however we are investing research and press business tighter net of comprehensive support for our cus- development money into engineered solutions, is only roughly tomers. The focus will be on utilizing the com- mainly for automation needs such as closed-loop Alexander Wassermann CEO, manro- one-third of our bined expertise of our 450 service tech team of systems, drives and controls. We believe that en- land Goss web systems and Manfred total revenue. talented engineers. The motivation is to continue Werfel, WAN-IFRA deputy CEO and Our service seg- gineered solutions are a very strong market seg- executive director, global events. to develop services to provide the highest level ment going forward and recapturing the Goss ments represents of excellence through accurate and efficient newspaper business, which was lost in North two-thirds of the revenue of the new company. service, competitive pricing for parts and labor, America is part of this business segment, but also We will have 450 global technicians on the road. comprehensive remote tools and TeleSupport, we will be extending our reach into none OEM We have developed a centralized system to watch and service agreements to increase uptime on presses. In addition, we will continue to invest over our technician activity on a daily basis. Over a 24/365 basis. We receive 10,000 service calls in web offset packaging presses broadening our one hundred of the service techs will be based in into our Telesupport Center a year and we can portfolio.” North America/Durham,” he said. “In five years now get 98.3 percent of the presses back up and we hope to move from a two-thirds service com- running without dispatching an engineer. We Possehl and AIP pany to a three-quarters service company. are employing Maintellsense (maintenance, in- “Manroland Goss has a 79 percent market The new company has two shareholders: the Pos- telligence and sensors), with the ability to help share for new web offset presses,” he said. “Our sehl Group, which holds 51 percent of the shares predict maintenance and intelligence to deter- industry is not very easy to finance and capital and American Industrial Partners (AIP), which re- mine which parts to exchange and how to predict equipment needs stable financing. We don’t have tains the remaining 49 percent. downtime. We believe should be of great value to any external financing; it’s all through our main The Possehl Group is an investment company our users,” he said. shareholder. Which means we are very good and based in Germany, which is backed by a private stable going forward. trust and was founded 100 years ago. American E-Commerce solutions “The total orders in new presses for the first Industrial Partners (AIP) is a private equity com- “We have just opened a common parts eight months of 2018 are approximately $185 pany with $11.3 billion in sales. Contiweb, one trading platform, which offers a one-stop- million. That figure represents newspaper and of manroland’s commercial web division’s largest shopping experience to users. Market-X commercial combined sales activity combined,” partners, was not included in the newly formed provides highly efficient parts deliveries and Wassermann said. company. “AIP has kept Contiweb in their hold- is a marketplace for all suppliers to the web “I do not think that the consolidation period ings for now,” Wassermann said. “However, they offset industry. is over for the vendor community. Next year or are our largest supplier and we are their largest “With the new trading platform, costs can the year after will continue to bring consolida- customer.” I am sure our partnership will con- be reduced. Customers will be transferred tion, not necessarily on the original equipment tinue. manufacturer side but in other areas,” he told at- to other dealers and we will take a small cut “We are a German company, and so the ex- tendees. from the transaction,” Wassermann said. ecutive team is a German team which consists of The new manroland Goss will consist of four “All manroland Goss original parts will be former manroland executives. But obviously, we segments. marked with MGWS so that clients know it have become a much more global company and is an original part and not a pirate part. just last week we had our first global managers System solutions “Previously, only our users that have man- meeting with the folks from all world,” he said. roland web equipment could tap into the “Our reach is much more global than it has “System Solutions will focus on highly auto- store, however in the last couple of months been before. We do have some sites that over- mated press and post-press equipment to create we have opened the store to be a common lap and we are still synergizing facilities in the sustainable success for today’s print operation. United Kingdom, China, and Australia. Goss To insure the most effective levels of quality and trading platform. Any supplier can put their maintains a facility in Japan for maintenance and waste reduction for customers, the manroland parts into the store and any customer can service of our Japanese clients, which represents Goss Group is continuing to focus on the devel- access the store. It’s going to become a real a six to seven million euro a year business,” Was- opment and manufacturing of printing systems open trading platform for this industry and sermann said. that support existing production needs and open we hope that it also creates lots of interest “Our global headquarters will be based in the doors of possibility for new business models. in North America. The store is scheduled to Augsburg, Germany, our biggest site. The Ameri- System solutions from manroland Goss are sup- open end of the first quarter of 2019. There cas headquarters will be in Durham, New Hamp- ported by certified pre-owned solutions as well will be two major customer service and dis- shire. We will support all the products and servic- as existing press relocations,” Wassermann said. tribution centers, in Durham and Augsburg. es for North America from the Durham location,” “We want to keep both cultures alive and he said. Engineered solutions get the best out of both,” Wassermann said “Throughout the portfolio, this segment provides “After the merger we have approximately 1,050 of the merger. p employees, coming down from around 1,250 pri- mechanical upgrades, automation, control sys- or to the merger. We recently announced that we tems, drives and closed–loop solutions for all

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In the wake of outcries about fake news on dia, but also competitors, talent and other social media, Facebook is making an effort publishers in their networks. Common met- to address the concerns. In January 2017, rics that are measured and analyzed for per- the social media giant acquired CrowdTan- formance using CrowdTangle include total gle, a platform used by the news industry to interactions, video views, interaction rate, track what’s being shared on social media. post frequency and post mix. The tool was then offered as a free service as 3. Understanding audiences: CrowdTan- part of the Facebook Journalism Project. gle helps newsrooms understand the audi- “By being a part of Facebook, we can give ences they are reaching on Facebook, Twit- access to data that is available inside the ter, Instagram and Reddit. The tool tells local app but not widely available via APIs (ap- newsrooms the influencers, public groups, plication programming interface), like video Twitter accounts and Reddit threads that are views. Not only that, but we can stay ahead sharing their stories. This allows them to en- of upcoming changes to keep the user expe- gage on posts of their content, answer ques- rience as smooth as possible,” said Amber tions and provide more context. Burgess, U.S. Local News partner manager, As the platform continues to grow after the CrowdTangle. partnership with Facebook, CrowdTangle is The CrowdTangle platform can be used seeing additional impacts for users, such as across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Red- financial gain, digital literacy and central- into three distinguishable categories: dit, all free of charge to news industry profes- izing strategies around social KPIs (key per- 1. Story and content discovery: Local sionals. Since being acquired by Facebook, formance indicators). newsrooms use CrowdTangle to see what lo- CrowdTangle’s user base has grown about “Our core users are audience develop- cal sources are publishing on social media. ten-fold, according to Burgess. Much of their ment teams, social media teams and digital 2. Performance benchmarking: Crowd- growth has come from direct feedback from producer teams. However, our tool has val- Tangle provides public social data that helps local newsrooms using the platform. ue across many roles in the newsroom and is local newsrooms understand not only how Burgess breaks up CrowdTangle’s platform their accounts are performing on social me- CrowdTangle continued on page 10

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currently used by many of these Dr. Tomorrow warned publishers; roles at different news organizations: video teams, broadcast talent, reporters and journalists, u By Marc Wilson columnist they didn’t listen station general managers, senior level executives, data analysts, For many years, one of ally agreed that the best course of action would be sales teams,” Burgess said. the top speakers at press to put all newspaper content on the World Wide association meetings —es- Web without charge. The theory was that advertis- Big names pecially in Canada — was ing would follow the eyeballs. Many in the news- The CrowdTangle platform is Frank Ogden, a futurist paper industry have been trying to put that genie used by numerous large media who billed himself as “Dr. back in the bottle ever since. companies such as Gannett, Tomorrow.” Then there were those who advised raising cir- GateHouse and McClatchy. He was among the very culation rates to make up for circulation declines. “My overall experience with first to forewarn publish- Offer less, charge more, and ignore the competi- CrowdTangle has been great,” ers — and leaders in other tive landscape. Offer less in an ever-increasing said Penny Riordan, director of industries — about the potential disruptions that competitive environment. Digital Audience Engagement, would be caused by the intenet. Much advice was offered that the industry need- GateHouse Media. “GateHouse “It’s a whole new ballgame out there,” he told ed to cut its way to profitability. That resulted in has more than 500 Facebook audiences as early as 1990 (even before the World fewer and smaller pages, and smaller newsrooms. pages, and CrowdTangle helped Wide Web began). “Either you embrace the tech- And there those who said, “Let’s do everything us with some on-boarding early nological changes, or you’ll be left behind.” we can to protect print. Maybe the internet will go on that saved me some time. The More dramatically, he warned, “Either get on away.” support response time on the the steamroller of change, or become part of the Another theory often ballyhooed at conventions dashboard is also fast, and their road.” was that the newspapers needed to do everything on-site training materials are Too few listened. possible to enhance search engine (and social me- very robust.” Some even tried to assault him. dia) optimization so Google, Facebook and others CrowdTangle allows media In fact, he was proud to proclaim that, by his own could distribute the locally produced content. professionals to quickly pull estimates, more than 2,000 people had walked out That theory worked — for Google and Face- data pertinent to community in- on his speeches. book! volvement on social media. By “I’ve had seven coffee cups and one chair thrown Since Google was founded in 1998, its value has seeing what other local groups at me,” he noted publicly and proudly. “Three peo- climbed to almost one trillion dollars. Facebook, are posting on their pages in one ple even vomited.” founded in 2004, now has some 2.2 billion month- place, CrowdTangle users are Many challenged his credentials (and even his ly visitors and a net worth of some $150 billion. able to more easily digest what sanity). In the meantime, newspapers have fared not so their audience finds important. He conceded, “I have no academic qualifica- well. “One key thing that has tions whatsoever. That’s my biggest asset. Instead Pew Research says newspaper newsroom em- helped us is viewing analyt- of a Ph.D., I have an LSD.” ployees dropped by 45 percent from 2008 to 2017, ics for all of our pages together He’d worked as a counselor for years in a Ca- from about 71,000 workers in 2008 to 39,000 in in CrowdTangle Intelligence. nadian psychiatric clinic that successfully — he 2017. And since 2017, at least a third of all large I can see historical trends on claimed — used the mind-altering drug LSD for newspapers have had major layoffs. engagement, post volume and treatments. He sampled the drug, he said, claiming Pew Research also notes that total weekday cir- fan page size on all our pages in “LSD opened my mind. It allowed me to think in culation for U.S. daily newspapers — both print the GateHouse list. This allows new ways, to see the world differently.” and digital — fell 8 percent in 2016, marking the me to pull data pretty quickly,” He warned us to alter our thinking, too, with or 28th consecutive year of declines. Riordan said. “CrowdTangle has without the aid of chemicals. “If you are not aboard the steamroller of change,” also helped us keep the finger I was on the same program with him in Canada, Dr. Tomorrow warned, “you stand a good chance on the pulses of the social activ- in 2000 or 2001. In the makeshift green room we of being part of the road.” ity in our communities. Through shared he told me privately, “I’m nearly 80 years Instead of listening to Dr. Tomorrow, folks threw local lists, newsrooms can see old. I don’t make any prediction that isn’t at least chairs and coffee cups at him. They walked out of what police, schools or other 20 years out so I won’t be around to be held ac- his speeches and vomited when they should have local groups are sharing in Face- countable.” (He died in Vancouver at age 92 in been taking notes and taking action. book. Thanks to the viral alerts, 2013. Many of his predictions HAVE come true.) He told them. They should have gotten aboard the staff can turn those around Unlike Dr. Tomorrow, many speakers at newspa- the steamroller. p into quick posts. Many posts that per association meetings since then have offered started from something spotted Marc Wilson is founder and executive chairman of TownNews. less-than-stellar advice. on CrowdTangle have been real At one international journalism conference held He’s also author of the recently published book "Kidnapped by traffic drivers.” p in Paris in the mid-1990s, industry leaders gener- Columbus," published by Floricanto Press.

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Russ Newton, general manager of Bay Area Production Services production/operations leaders and suppliers are navigating the sea and incoming president of the International Newspaper Group con- of change affecting our businesses. ference, recently spoke to News & Tech about his vision for the ING All the major vendors attend the conference too and are there to 2019 Conference. ING is a not-for-profit organization composed of help educate and share user experiences as well. This makes ING a international newspaper operations executives and industry suppli- great place to network with peers and vendors. If you have a project ers, which meets once a year to exchange information. going on, having all the vendors in one place is good. For the vendors, having all the decision-makers in one place is a gold mine. News & Tech: What is the mission of the International Newspaper Attendees can have one-on-one meetings with just about all the Group (ING)? decision-makers in the industry. Participating in ING’s short Friday Newton: ING serves the newspaper industry by providing the pre- evening gathering/Saturday forum affords executives the chance miere annual networking forum for executive-level print production to meet and mingle with other executives who have similar jobs as & operations leadership to creatively exchange best practices and yours with many of the same issues and challenges you face. And accelerate innovation toward improving production, and for vendor they might have figured out a solution to a problem that you can use, peers to help engage, enhance and empower our print operations to too! Or have ideas on new revenue streams, or new ways of reduc- maximize cost effectiveness, productivity and profit. ing costs. At the very least, getting to know others in the industry can come in handy when you need a part at 2:00 a.m. News & Tech: Who should attend the ING conferences? Another benefit—we have linked our annual conference dates to Newton: If you are the one in your organization responsible for print, mesh with PRINT; their show starts on Sunday so you can stay an ex- logistics, distribution, workflows, integrated services, real estate/fa- tra day to see all the vendors’ equipment at the show. Plus, there are cilities and more. Operation executives continue to have expanding lots of great restaurants in Chicago as well! and evolving roles with about one-quarter of our members now han- dling real estates matters. Transportation and distribution issues are News & Tech: What’s new for 2019? major with executives such as myself. Newton: We have engaged a dynamic keynote speaker, Keni Thomas (motivational speaker, singer and former Army Ranger). Every mem- News & Tech: What is the benefit to executives? ber of the ING board of directors is working on a subcommittee with Newton: Since the NEXPO conference ceased years ago, there has the goal of making this the biggest, best ING possible in 2019. We been no replacement conference dedicated to operations execu- have already secured over $30,000 in vendor support and we haven’t tives. launched our real effort in this area yet. p ING is the one event you must attend to learn how your fellow

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Frankfurt, Germany – Germany has established a network of 12 hubs in 16 cities that focus on hot topics relevant to industrial digital transformation. The hubs feature key themes, including virtual reality and 360 video, 3D metal printing, artificial intelligence, smart city, media tech, mobility, cybersecurity, cloud and cognitive computing, 5G, e- health, blockchain and other 4.0 technologies. The hubs are run by independent operators that are their own legal entities. Some of the hubs were founded by individuals, while others are backed by research institutions or municipal authorities. The hubs are designed to assist early stage incubator and growth stage accelerator companies. The hubs provide companies with innovative co-working spaces, help in generating venture capital funding and other resources. “We try to be the playing ground … where businesses can emerge from,” said Hugo Paquin, marketing manager for Frankfurt-based digi- Ron Ehrhardt tal hub TQ. TQ provides co-working space to members who pay 130 [email protected] euro a month for access to a “floating desk,” among other support ser- 717 329 4231 vices provided by the facility. Several companies involved in the hubs have been seeking additional venture capital funding from Silicon Valley and attending conferences such South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in hopes of generating visibility. Plug and Play The Digital Hub Initiative joins a healthy crop of players in the Euro- pean startup game, according to techcrunch.com. Media giants such as Europe’s leading publisher, Axel Springer, Norway’s Schibsted, Swe- den’s Bonnier and Germany’s Hubert Burda Media have become active investors who operate venture capitalist portfolios made up of mostly of e-commerce brands and marketplaces. Two common strategies for traditional media companies involve investing in replacing the losses of the classified section while diversify- ing into a range of consumer marketplaces versus, or sometimes paired with, capturing accelerated technology that will reshape media and continue to evolve. Berlin-based Axel Springer now manages and invests in a portfolio of more than a hundred companies that went through the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. The accelerator is operated in partnership with the Plug and Play Tech Center, an international startup accelerator in Sunnyvale, California. In business since 1990, the tech center has housed companies such as Google, PayPal and Dropbox. Axel Springer’s Digital Ventures team has backed ventures including Caroobi (for cars) and Airbnb, and the firm’s accelerator has invested in more than a hundred startups such as digital bank N26, boat rental AH Tensor International LLC marketplace Zizoo and influencer-brand marketplace blogfoster. 10330 Argonne Woods Dr. Suite 300 For more information on the Digital Hub Initiative, email Germany Woodridge, IL 60517 Trade & Invest at [email protected] or visit www.de-hub.de. p Phone: (630) 739 9600 www.ustensor.com

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BERLIN – The WAN-IFRA Expo in Berlin marked the first public unveiling of the combined Newscycle Solutions and Infomaker organizations. News- cycle acquired Infomaker in July, making the Infomaker Open Content platform the cornerstone of the company’s next-generation content management strategy. “We were pleased and impressed with the positive reception the Infomaker platform received from WAN-IFRA DCX attendees,” said Peter Marsh, News- cycle’s vice president of Marketing. “We aimed to show decision-makers in newsrooms and digital operations how easy the Infomaker system is to install and use. The platform is extensible, which means that publishers can quickly add their own modules and third-party applications into an integrated newsroom environment.” Based in Kalmar, Sweden, the Infomaker team forms the Content Lab within the larger Newscycle global organization. Seven of the largest media houses in the Nordic countries use Infomaker’s digital tools for content creation, planning and production. In addition, over 90 percent of the news media companies in Sweden are Infomaker customers. Under Newscycle, with headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota, the In- fomaker team will continue to focus on digital-first content management, delivering to the market solutions for digital presentation, decoupled content storage and delivery, and create-once-publish-anywhere workflows. Feedback “We were compelled by much of the feedback we received from newsroom executives who have implemented the Infomaker suite,” said Marsh. “One news editor from Sweden told us, ‘The first question from reporters used to revolve around formatting issues: How would their material be published in the print version; what was the word-count limit; and what was the plan when it came to photos? They don’t pose these types of questions anymore. Instead, they focus on the journalistic content right away.’” Over the coming months, Newscycle plans to deliver even closer integration between the Infomaker system and Newscycle’s advertising and subscription platforms. “To steal an ice hockey metaphor, we are always trying to skate to where the puck is heading,” said Marsh. “As news media companies around the world continue to rely on audience revenues as the key to future digital growth, we want to invest in technologies that deepen subscriber engagement, provide better analytics, and create new monetization opportunities via personalized advertising and targeted subscription models.” p

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CHICAGO – Joe Bowman, president of the International Newspaper Group, welcomed a “good group” to the annual meeting recently held in Chicago. “Our industry is changing and we are forced to adapt. We face consolida- tions in printing and distribution and are now becoming real estate agents as we look to fill extra space in our facilities,” said Bowman. “One of our biggest challenges is maintaining a workforce as it’s very difficult to bring in Off the Record technical help. It’s hard to get interest in our operations as no one wants to work weekends, holidays or nights,” he said. “We are now printers, packagers and distributers as our roles have changed dramatically.” Photos: Mary L. Van Meter MaryPhotos: L. Van

Gary Hughes, general manager, TC Transcontinental. Brent Murray, national account manager, and Mike Phillips, vice Cindy and Norman Harbin, recently retired from Flint Group and president newspapers for Agfa Graphics. the ING board.

Mike Crabtree, production director, Forum Communications. David Shields, principal owner, Shields Engineering. Jamie Cann, production manager, The Royal Gazette.

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Donerail, McClatchy, AIM bid for Tribune ment said. Parliament’s position toughens the EU Commission’s proposed Publishing plans to make online platforms and aggregators liable for copyright Donerail Group, McClatchy and AIM Media put in bids to buy Tri- infringements. This would also apply to snippets, where only a small bune Publishing Co., the Chicago Tribune reported. part of a news publisher’s text is displayed, the European Parliament The bids were up for discussion at the company's board meeting release said. Nov. 5. “This is a great day not only for news publishers in Europe, but Tribune Publishing, formerly known as Tronc, owns the Chicago all over the world,” said David Chavern, CEO of the News Media Alli- Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, the New York ance, which represents over 2,000 news organizations in the U.S. and Daily News, the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, and a num- globally. ber of other papers. “The European Union is showing strong leadership in protect- California-based McClatchy has more than 30 newspapers in 14 ing the sustainability of high-quality journalism, and we hope that states. New York-based investment firm the Donerail Group is led by other countries follow suit in leveling the playing field between news ex-Starboard Value executive Will Wyatt. Texas-based AIM Media is publishers and online services. We encourage the EU to conclude the headed by Jeremy Halbreich, an ex-chairman of Chicago's Sun-Times negotiations swiftly and to preserve a strong Article 11 in the final Media. directive,” Chavern said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote a piece in opposition to the Meredith sells Time, Fortune measure in The Financial Times. Meredith announced Sept. 16 that it has agreed to sell the Time me- The measure faces a final vote in 2019. dia brand to Marc and Lynne Benioff for $190 million in cash. The Benioffs purchased Time personally and the transaction is New York Times digitizing photo morgue unrelated to Salesforce.com, where Marc Benioff is chairman, co- The New York Times is using Google Cloud technology to digitize an CEO and founder. The Benioffs will not be involved in the day-to-day extensive collection of photographs dating back to as early as the operations or journalistic decisions, which will continue to be led by late 19th century, the company said. The process will uncover some Time’s current executive leadership team, according to Des Moines- never-before-seen-documents, equip Times journalists with an eas- based Meredith. ily accessible historical reference source, and preserve The Times’s On Nov. 9, Meredith announced an agreement to sell the Fortune history, a news release said. media brand for $150 million cash to Fortune Media Group Holdings Prior to the digitization, millions of photographs, along with Limited, owned by Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon. The tens of millions of historical news clippings, microfilm records and transaction is expected to close in 2018. other archival materials, existed only in a physical archive three Jiaravanon is affiliated with the Charoen Pokphand Group, an levels below ground near The Times headquarters in New York City international conglomerate with businesses in telecom and media; called “The New York Times Archival Library,” also known as the agro-food and other sectors. “m o rg u e .” Jiaravanon will own Fortune as a personal private investment “We’ve always known that we were sitting on a trove of historical independent of C.P. Group's family businesses. photos and now, cloud technology allows us to not only preserve this Meredith acquired Fortune as part of its purchase of Time Inc., archival source, but easily search and pull photos to provide even which closed on January 31, 2018. more historical context,” said Monica Drake, assistant managing In spring, Meredith had announced it was selling Fortune, Time, editor, The New York Times. “Ultimately, this digitalization will equip Money and Sports Illustrated. Times journalists with useful tools to make it easier to tell even more visual stories.” European Parliament adopts position on The newsroom will use the digitized archives to inspire stories for Past Tense, a body of coverage dedicated to revisiting history. digital copyright rules The European Parliament has voted to approve a position for talks with member states to hammer out a final deal on digital copyright Indianapolis alt-weekly Nuvo cuts print rules. The measure was approved Sept. 12 by 438 votes to 226, with schedule 39 abstentions. Nuvo, an alternative newsweekly based in Indianapolis, is cutting its Many of the parliament’s changes “aim to make certain that print schedule. artists, notably musicians, performers and script authors, as well as Starting in mid-November, the print edition of the paper was to news publishers and journalists, are paid for their work when it is be published every two weeks. Going forward, the page count will be used by sharing platforms such as YouTube or Facebook, and news up, with more advertising. The paper will have more event recom- aggregators such as Google News,” a news release from the parlia- mendations and previews and longer features in news, arts, food and

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entertainment, according to the paper. roughly 203,000, according to the paper. “While our overall readership has remained consistent over That was the highest gain in digital subscribers in a quarter the past three decades, the number of digital readers continues to since the so-called Trump bump in the fourth quarter of 2016 and increase and print readers decrease, with a good number reading us the first quarter of 2017 after the presidential election, the paper both online and in print,” said an explanation of the changes from says. Editor Laura McPhee. Of the 203,000 rise in digital subscribers, 143,000 signed on for Recently the paper got a grant from the Community Listening digital news products, with the remainder paying for the company’s and Engagement Fund backed by The News Integrity Initiative, The cooking and crossword offerings. Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation and the Lenfest Institute Net income reached $24.9 million, a 23 percent drop from 2017 for Journalism. when the publisher realized a one-time gain from the sale of a dam The paper used the grant funds to get two platforms, Hear- owned by a closed paper mill, the paper said. ken and GroundSource, that “will help make our journalism more Revenue from digital subscriptions rose to $101.2 million in the public-powered,” according to the paper. quarter, an 18 percent increase from the same period in 2017. Online The paper dates to 1990. “We’re excited about the future and advertising was up 17 percent to $57.8 million, the paper said. how we will evolve in order to remain Indy’s best source for local, independent journalism for decades to come,” McPhee wrote. Digital First laying off 107 in Colorado New York Magazine has digital subscription Springs Denver-based Digital First Media is laying off 107 workers at a Colo- offering rado Springs call center starting in late December and going into New York Magazine has a digital subscription offering, the magazine January and February of 2019, the Denver Post and others reported. announced. Most of the workers are in accounting or finance, according to The offering involves Vulture, the Cut, Intelligencer, the Strate- a notice the company filed with the Colorado Department of Labor gist, and Grub Street, which produce around 150 stories daily. “The and Employment. product is conceived as a general-interest magazine applied to The work is going to GenPact, a global professional services firm digital — short and long stories, serious and funny, highbrow and that employs more than 80,000 worldwide. lowbrow,” according to the magazine. Digital First is owned by New York-based hedge fund Alden A new nymag.com homepage was planned in coordination with Global Capital. the subscription product, to highlight content from around the New The laid-off employees will be eligible for income support from York Media network. the U.S. Labor Department under a government program for workers New York Media says it has a global audience of 45 million read- laid off because of imports or work moved to a foreign country, the ers per month. Colorado Springs Gazette reported. Its latest site is Intelligencer, which covers politics, tech, and The Labor Department said that the Digital First workers qualify business. A new listings product covering the best restaurants and as the company “has acquired from a foreign country service like or bars in New York City was to launch in November. directly competitive with services supplied by the workers.” The cost of the digital subscription will be $5 per month, with a dynamic meter (versus a static paywall based on a set number of ar- Gannett papers to largely skip election re- ticles). Readers will be prompted to subscribe based on a mix of data points and they will be alerted as they near the limit of free articles. sults to print Existing print subscribers have access to the digital product at Readers of Gannett papers in the company’s 109 local markets were no added cost. New digital plus print subscriptions are $70 per year. told to go online to papers’ websites for election results. There was “We’re aiming to separate casual browsers from superfans and little planned in the way of fresh election results in the Nov. 7 print forge a deeper relationship with those fans who are passionate about editions, Ken Doctor reported in his Newsonomics column for Har- what we do,” says New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein. vard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. Gannett said it would scrap its paywalls for two days or more to New York Times passes 4 million let the public see election results, Doctor reports. The move is meant to encourage readers to go online and to cut subscriber mark costs, says Doctor, who provided a lengthy analysis in light of trends The New York Times Company now has more than three million paid in print. digital-only subscribers and more than four million total, the com- Gannett has a 7 p.m. print close time in most markets, Amalie pany reported on Nov. 1. Nash, executive editor for local news at Gannett’s USA Today Net- The company hit those marks in the third quarter of 2018, work, told Doctor. Print deadlines have moved up in many markets when the number of its digital subscribers showed a net increase of as centralized production hubs have become prevalent, Doctor

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points out. taking the next major step in our evolution.” “Across Gannett, some publishers, editors, and circulation The first phase of the project will start in January 2019 and the directors wonder what the reaction will be among long-time print second phase is scheduled for early 2020. subscribers accustomed to seeing actual election results in print,” Doctor writes. Tampa Bay Times cuts 16 The Tampa Bay Times recently cut its newsroom staff by 16, accord- Nemo News Media Group buys Palmyra ing to the Poynter Institute, which owns the paper. The Times is the Spectator sixth-largest paper in the nation. “In October, the Tampa Bay Times eliminated jobs throughout Nemo News Media Group has bought Missouri’s Palmyra Spectator, the organization, including nine full-time positions in the newsroom which had announced it would close Oct. 31. and seven part-time jobs,” said a statement from Executive Editor The paper's publishers, Mark and Patty Cheffey, said that the Mark Katches. “The reductions are necessary as the Times realigns paper will stay alive “for the foreseeable future,” the Herald Whig its business for the future,” he said. (Quincy, Illinois) reported. “Although saying goodbye to talented journalists is never easy, The179-year-old Spectator calls itself “the oldest continuously we're also actively hiring for mission critical jobs that will keep us published weekly newspaper west of the Mississippi.” moving forward,” Katches said. “We’ve been adding to our investiga- Mark Cheffey said the deal with Mike and Sue Scott, owners of tive reporting team and are planning to hire digital producers and a the media group, was finalized in late October. deputy editor overseeing digital strategy and audience engagement.” The Cheffeys will operate the Spectator as employees of the Last spring the Times cut 50 positions companywide due to Scotts. One other full-time employee and two part-timers will falling ad revenues and a rise in newsprint costs linked to tariffs, remain working at the Spectator, the Herald Whig reports. The Chef- Poynter said. feys have owned the Spectator since 1994. Mike Scott said he was pleased to add the Palmyra Spectator to his company's group of Missouri papers. Omaha World-Herald newsroom employees “Mark and Patty put out a terrific paper,” he said. vote to unionize News staffers at the Omaha World-Herald voted Oct. 8 to unionize. Quad/Graphics acquiring LSC Communications The vote was 71-5 to affiliate with The NewsGuild. Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications announced Oct. 31 that “Today is a historic day as journalists make the Omaha World- their boards of directors have approved a deal to have Wisconsin- Herald the first newspaper newsroom to organize in Nebraska,” said based Quad acquire LSC Communications in an all-stock transac- Todd Cooper, a World-Herald reporter for 21 years. “But our over- tion valued at approximately $1.4 billion, including the refinancing whelming vote really just reinforces what we’ve always had here — a of LSC Communications’ debt. dedicated group of journalists committed to the future of Nebraska’s As of September 30, the combined company would have had an- best newspaper.” nual revenue of approximately $8 billion. Negotiations toward a first contract with the paper’s owner, The transaction is expected to close in mid-2019. Omaha-based BH Media Group, are expected to begin in coming Quad’s Joel Quadracci will be the chairman, president and CEO months. BH Media is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire of the combined company. Hathaway. “This is a defining moment in Quad’s 47-year journey,” Quadracci BH Media paid Lee Enterprises, based in Davenport, Iowa, to said. “We have grown from a printer with a single facility to a global manage The World-Herald and BH Media’s other newspapers start- marketing solutions provider with a seamless, integrated offering ing in July. that creates more value for all our stakeholders at a time of signifi- The World-Herald, according to BH Media’s website, has more cant media disruption. Together with LSC Communications, we will than 100,000 print subscribers and 1 million unique visitors per create a compelling combination of talent, expertise and client tech- month at Omaha.com. nology to further fuel our Quad 3.0 marketing solutions transforma- The vote of World-Herald employees to be represented by The tion and strengthen the role of print — a proven and trusted media NewsGuild sector of Communications Workers of America was over- form in today’s multichannel world.” seen by the National Labor Relations Board. “Since becoming a standalone public company at the end of The NewsGuild-CWA represents 25,000 members across the me- 2016, LSC Communications has added critical scale, capabilities dia industry in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico and has and technologies,” said Thomas J. Quinlan III, chairman and CEO of been actively organizing major media chains this year, the guild says. 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The Siebold Company acquires DR Press ESuite was implemented on the newspaper’s flagship website (thestar.com) in September 2018, an MPP Global press release says. Equipment The Toronto Star now offers both registrations and subscriptions The Siebold Company has acquired web offset printing press parts through “Star Digital Access.” supplier DR Press Equipment. The purchase is aligned with Siebold’s A further three regional websites owned by Torstar have been parts expansion strategy to better serve the company’s global cus- implemented with user registration walls, and an additional 24 will tomer base, the company says. be implemented by the end of the year. Torstar is using the complete The acquisition of DR immediately gives TSC entry into the collection of modules available within eSuite, according to MPP double-width web offset parts business, additional single-width Global, which is headquartered in the U.K. “The breadth of func- parts and expert parts personnel, a press release on the acquisition tionality in the platform enables Torstar to offer a complete solution said. “Following the TSC acquisition of Dauphin Graphic Machines without the need for multiple third-party components,” the release and Smith Pressroom Products, acquiring DR adds significant says. double-width and single-width press parts offerings to our growing parts inventory,” said Christopher Miles, TSC vice president of corporate development. “We are also very pleased that DR’s Dan Dowejko Tensor gets book press order from Indone- joined TSC and will remain active helping our customers with their sian printer parts purchases.” In March 2018, Tensor International was awarded a contract for a TSC is the parent company of DR Press Equipment, DGM and new book press for PT Macanajaya Cemerlang, located in Indonesia. Smith Pressroom Products and offers press equipment brokering The order consists of two T-400 4-high printing towers and one services, equipment reconfiguring and reconditioning services, H-50 folder. equipment audits and appraisals and operational consulting and The 40,000 iph rated Tensor T400 printing units will be equipped is the exclusive distributor for Netherlands-based GWS Printing with remote inking and spray bar dampening. Tensor, along with Systems. sister company DCOS Automation Sweden, has designed into the configuration a unit shaftless drive system, integrated press console, Agfa Graphics to close New Jersey factory and an automatic camera-based registration and cut-off control Agfa Graphics announced that it plans to close its factory in Branch- system. burg, New Jersey, one of its six production sites for printing plates The shaftless heavy duty H-50 folder is equipped with a commer- worldwide. The plant produces lithographic aluminum printing cial-grade quarter folder along with a complete signature perfora- plates for offset presses. In recent years, market demand for these tion package. products has slightly decreased in Europe and the U.S., a press “We desired a heavy duty, high durability machine to fulfill our release from Belgium-based Agfa said. In other regions, such as Asia, 24-hour-a-day production environment and found the Tensor T400 demand increased. to be the right press for our needs,” said Sugeng Sentosa, CEO of PT “This decision is part of our strategic plan to optimize our global Macanajaya Cemerlang. production capacity and supply chain for printing plates. This is The T-400 will be added to an existing Solna press to produce necessary to remain a strong player in the extremely competitive high-quality 4-color text books. global prepress market, which is transforming rapidly,” says Stefaan The equipment shipped in early September and installation was Vanhooren, president of Agfa Graphics. “This closure will have an to be completed by the end of November 2018. impact on 125 jobs. We are committed to minimizing the social impact of this closure as much as possible. Furthermore, this decision Norway’s Egmont switches to production will have no impact on our high standards of delivery of our goods and services to our customers in North America,” he said. with Content-X The effective date of the layoffs is Dec. 26, according to the New Oslo-based-media company Egmont Publishing Norway, part of the Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Danish Egmont Group and the largest publisher of magazines and weeklies in Norway, is changing its print and digital production to the editorial solution Content-X by ppi Media and Digital Collec- Torstar launches paid digital subscriptions tions. with eSuite In the future, more than 50 Scandinavian magazines and weekly MPP Global, the technology company that delivers the eSuite sub- newspapers, together with their digital content, will be produced scription and billing platform, has launched digital subscriptions for with the editorial system jointly developed by ppi Media and Digital Torstar Corporation. Torstar is home to over 90 regional news titles Collections. across Canada, including The Toronto Star, one of Canada's highest- The key factor in the publisher’s choice was the Digital Asset circulation daily newspapers. Management (DAM) combined with the fact that content can be

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entered in a media neutral format in Content-X, a ppi Media press participating home’s first lead is complimentary. release said. “We’ve been listening to funeral homes tell us what they need,” Content-X was one of three candidates considered by the com- says Legacy’s senior vice president John Heald, himself a fourth- pany until an extensive test phase started in February 2018. Its aim generation funeral director. “Being able to put new leads from was to almost fully implement the solution and to produce an actual household decision-makers straight into funeral directors’ hands is magazine. The pilot phase was successfully implemented in May an incredible opportunity to help them." and June 2018 by ppi Media, Digital Collections and BrandMaster (Scandinavian distributor of DC-X), who worked in close collabora- Indian paper Mathrubhumi adds MWM tion with Egmont Publishing Norway. The final decision was made at the end of September: CopyTrack Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi has added the CopyTrack system Newsday to install SCS/Track from Swedish systems supplier MWM to its operation. Mathrubhumi has a total circulation of 1.5 million and is printed in 16 editions Newsday Media Group has selected SCS to install SCS/Track for across the country, ten in Kerala and one each in New Delhi, Mum- print and digital ad production. bai, Bangalore, Chennai, Dubai and Doha. Based in Melville, New York, and reaching over a million house- The paper is printed using machinery including TKS color offset holds and businesses in Nassau and Suffolk counties, Newsday Me- presses from Japan and Ferag mailroom facilities from Switzerland. dia Group is a longtime SCS customer. SCS/Track will be their fourth MWM CopyTrack is a system for real-time follow-up of the on- SCS system, joining Layout-8000, SCS/ClassPag and Fotoware. going print plant production. The system registers all types of waste SCS/Track replaces two legacy systems that Newsday had been in the pressroom and mailroom, reducing the number of run-ons using since 1995. A hundred and fifty employees will be transitioning and re-runs by automatically shutting down the press when the cor- to SCS/Track. “The biggest gain for us will be going to an all-digital rect print run has been produced, according to MWM Group. workflow,” said Gregory McDonald, ad systems supervising analyst The Mathrubhumi order also includes MWM’s Realtime Roll at Newsday. Consumption (RRC), real-time monitoring through the CopyTrack For both print and digital ads, Newsday intends to use SCS/ Mobile App and the MWM Business Intelligence dashboard. Track’s remote ad delivery capabilities as well as proofing and Cadgraf Digitals is a MWM partner in India.” markup provided by Newsday’s sales staff. “SCS/Track will combine functionality achieved by disparate systems for all of Newsday Media Group, which includes Newsday’s main daily product as well as the Hometown Shopper weeklies and What’s Happening on Long Island,” said Phil Curtolo, director of sales at SCS. Pennsylvania-based SCS is privately held by Richard and Martha Cichelli. Newsday provides news for Long Island and New York City and the ninth largest newspaper in the United States.

Legacy Advisor Network connects funeral homes, planner customers Legacy.com has launched the Legacy Advisor Network, a program that will match Legacy’s demographically ideal consumers who are interested in funeral planning with local funeral homes. With more than 20 million baby boomers visiting Legacy.com monthly, the company’s user base, which skews toward women 55+, is a strong match for the funeral planning market, according to legacy.com. Funeral homes that participate in the Legacy Advisor Network will receive real-time contact information of nearby consumers re- questing funeral planning information through Legacy.com. Partici- pating homes will also receive a full-featured, customizable profile page within Legacy’s directory. There is no cost to join the Legacy Advisor Network, and every

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CHECKING OUR PULSE What are newspapers saying about the state of things?

could guess, with relative success, the Kevin Slimp answers to the quiz. The News Guru For instance, while much of the general public might think most pa- [email protected] pers are part of large groups, the fact stateofnewspapers.com that 51 percent of newspapers are independent and locally owned, doesn’t ver the past two weeks, I’ve trav- get past most quiz-takers, and the fact Oeled from coast to coast speaking that less than 20 percent of papers are at newspaper conferences and meet- related to large regional or national ing with Canadian and American groups doesn’t surprise too many. journalists about what is happening At each recent conference, I’ve at their newspapers and, hopefully, taken time to visit with journalists offering a little good advice. about what is happening at their As I’ve met with papers. Just this week publishers, writers I recently heard in Bismarck, North Da- and editors in places a publisher say, kota, I met with publishers, like Keene, New Hamp- editors and reporters from shire, Phoenix, Ari- “Journalism is a more than 20 newspapers zona and Bismarck, thankless job.” in one-on-one meetings. North Dakota, I’ve be- What did I learn? I Keith Gentili, publisher of The New come even more convinced that the re- learned there are quite a few younger Boston (N.H.) Beacon, discusses his sults of the Newspaper Institute spring editors and publishers moving up the one-year-old newspaper at a recent publisher’s survey were right on target ranks at newspapers. I learned most conference in Keene, New Hampshire. when it comes to the state of newspa- newspapers are doing well, and are is to be a journalist. Hard work and pers across the U.S. and Canada. continually looking for ways to im- long hours, combined with the wrath At newspaper conferences, I often prove their products and serve their of angry readers, requires a special communities better. breed. I also learned while many pub- I met with college and high school lishers and editors talk about some- newspaper staffs who are excited day moving off to the mountains or about their futures in journalism. beach, in reality they can’t imagine I met with metro newspaper inves- doing anything else. tigative reporters about how to dig Yes, journalism is unlike any deeper to get better stories. I met other career, and newspapers require with several publishers who were a special type of journalist. I suppose concerned that their readership was that’s why I fall in love with every rapidly shrinking due to centralized place I go and feel close to so many production, meaning their papers are people I meet. ﬁ lled with stories from other places I recently heard one publisher that local readers have no interest in say, “Journalism is a thankless job.” reading. I turned to her and said, “Thank I learned that reporters still you.” struggle with boredom while covering Callings aren’t always easy. Usual- school board, city commission and ly, they’re not. But something within other meetings that must be attended. continues to drive us, and the world is I learned there are still a lot of news- a better place because of what we do. papers where one or two people do I still fall in love with every place everything from reporting, designing, I visit. I still meet close friends and Dylan Kahl is editor of The Mystician, selling ads and running the paper. make new friends at each conference. student newspaper at Bismarck State I learned that print is still king. I suppose that’s because we’ve heard College in Bismarck, North Dakota. I’ve learned that the further a news- the same calling. give a “pop quiz” to learn a little paper is from its corporate head- Oh, by the way, thank you. about what is going on at newspapers quarters, the more likely it is that its and what journalist think is going on readership is shrinking rapidly. at papers across the country. I used Meeting over dinner conversa- newspaperacademy.com to be surprised that most attendees tion, I heard many times how hard it

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J. David Ake, deputy bureau chief for visual journalism at The News Advertising Coalition has named John Newby The Associated Press Washington bureau, has been pro- executive director. Newby previously served as publisher moted to director of photography for the AP. of The Muskogee Phoenix (Oklahoma) and The Times (Ot- tawa, Illinois). Prior to that, he honed his skills in circula- NorCal Community Newspapers’ (NCN) Division Publisher tion and marketing at The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus Jim Gleim announced the appointment of Jack F. K. (Moline, Illinois) and across several properties in Utah and Bungart to the position of group editor, Solano County Iowa. He is also the founder of the 360 Media Alliance, a Publications. In this capacity, Bungart will serve as edi- newspaper trade organization with a focus on audience tor at The Reporter in Vacaville and The Times-Herald in and distribution innovation. Vallejo (California). Gleim also announced the appointment of Melissa Murphy, currently managing editor at Elizabeth Walters and Chris Kieffer have been named The Reporter, to lead the newsroom at the Santa Cruz to lead the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal’s news Sentinel, NCN’s largest property. department. Walters will serve as daily editor and digital editor, while Kieffer was named opinion editor and Sunday The Poynter Institute announced Tom Jones as its new section editor. They will work together to divide the execu- senior media writer. Jones, an award-winning Tampa Bay tive editor responsibilities. Times sports columnist, will join Poynter in January. Nicole Carroll, editor in chief of USA Today, has been Wanda Moeller has been appointed editor/publisher of elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University El Defensor Chieftain (New Mexico). She succeeds Scott announced. The 19-member Pulitzer Board comprises Turner, who recently announced he will join the news- mainly leading journalists or news executives from media room at the Albuquerque Journal. outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or people Moeller has worked in virtually every aspect of operations in the arts. during her 35-plus years in the newspaper industry. James Strauss, the former publisher of the Great Falls Josiah Pollard Rowe III, who formerly owned and pub- Tribune, has been named the publisher of the Missoulian lished his family’s newspaper, The Free Lance-Star, and and the Ravalli Republic newspapers. Strauss succeeds served as Fredericksburg (Virginia) mayor, died recently Mike Gulledge, who announced in September he was at his home. He was 90. Rowe grew up setting linotype for leaving Lee Enterprises due to health concerns. Gulledge the newspaper after school, and could recite a linotype was a company vice president and publisher of The Bill- keyboard horizontally and vertically long afterward. When ings Gazette, as well. Strauss resigned from the Tribune their father died in 1949, Rowe and brother Charles were in April after serving 15 years as president and publisher called home to manage the newspaper. Under the Rowes’ of Great Falls Media, which is owned by Gannett. He was leadership, The Free Lance-Star’s circulation grew from executive editor of the media company from 1995 to 2003. 6,437 to a high of 50,000 as a seven-day newspaper, and the business was expanded to include WFLS radio and freder- Edwin Eisendrath, the former alderman who partnered icksburg.com. with labor unions and others to buy the Chicago Sun- Times last year, resigned as CEO of Sun-Times Media in John Hale has been named publisher of the Herald-Star late October. Eisendrath expanded the paper’s digital and (Ohio) and The Weirton Daily Times. video journalism, increased newsroom diversity and pre- sided over the sale of the Chicago Reader after controversy Samuel E. “Sam” Roberts, 87, third-generation publish- involving the alt-weekly’s management and staff. er of The Lincoln County News (Newcastle, Maine) from 1966 to 1992, has died. Indianapolis Star columnist Matt Tully has died at 49.

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Tim Grieve, vice president of News for McClatchy, an- The Sentinel in Hanford, California. He succeeds Brenda nounced that he would step down from his position fol- Speth, who has left the company. Taylor was named lowing the midterm elections. He will be moving to a “new publisher of The Sentinel in 2013 after serving as sales venture in the media space,” according to a statement and marketing director for Gannett’s Times-Delta Media from McClatchy. As vice president of News, Grieve over- Group. He also was a director of national, local and target sees the company’s newsrooms and news strategies. marketing sales teams at The Seattle Times.

Todd Sears was named president and publisher of the The Poynter Institute announced that Katy Byron, for- Omaha World-Herald, becoming the seventh person to mer Snapchat managing editor and CNN producer, is the serve in that role in the newspaper’s history. This marks organization’s first MediaWise editor and program man- a return to BH Media Group for Sears. He served as vice ager. MediaWise is a multifaceted project aimed at helping president of advertising and revenue development at the teenagers sort fact from fiction online. Poynter launched Richmond Times-Dispatch from 2014 to 2016. Before that, MediaWise in March with an investment from Google. he was director of advertising at the Press of Atlantic City org and partnerships with the Stanford Graduate School in New Jersey. Both publications are part of BH Media of Education History Education Group, Local Media As- Group. sociation and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). John J. Jordan III has been named vice president of Digital for BH Media Group. Jordan will be charged with Stacy Briggs, a former editor at The Intelligencer and leading the transformation of BH Media’s news and ad- Bucks County Courier Times (Pennsylvania), has died at vertising organizations with a digital-first approach that 74. will increase audience and revenue. Jordan most recently served as executive vice present of partner development Donald R. Seaton, who followed in the footsteps of with Vendasta, a Canadian provider of digital marketing his father and grandfather as a steward of community service. newspapers in America’s heartland, has died at the age of 77. Seaton, who was familiar with Hastings Tribune (Ne- Joe Battistoni has been appointed general manager of braska) operations from the time he was a boy, officially The Times Media Co. (Munster, Indiana). Battistoni joined started his career with the newspaper in 1967. He became The Times in 2014 and has served as vice president of associate publisher in 1971, then publisher in 1974 follow- sales and marketing since 2015. Battistoni will continue as ing the death of his father, Fred A. Seaton. Times vice president of sales and marketing and will now work more closely with the circulation and operations Shannon Casas, a member of The Times (Gainesville, departments. Georgia) newsroom staff for 12 years, has been named as editor in chief for the paper and its website. Casas most Rob Galloway has been named publisher of The Record- recently was director of content for The Times, having Courier (Gardnerville, Nevada). Galloway also serves as previously served as managing editor, metro editor and publisher of The Tahoe Tribune in South Lake Tahoe. assistant life editor. She replaces Keith Albertson, who left the newspaper earlier this month after a 33-year career Jim Kirk has been named to the newly created position of with The Times. publisher and executive editor of Crain’s Chicago Business. At its 133rd annual meeting in Chicago, the Inland Press Lee Enterprises announced that Davis Taylor would Association elected Doug Phares, COO of Sandusky become publisher of the Napa Valley Register in Napa ef- Newspapers in Sandusky, Ohio, as its president for the fective Nov. 1. Taylor will continue to serve as publisher of 2018–2019 term. Cory Bollinger, vice president of pub-

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lishing for Schurz Communications in Mishawaka, Indiana, and digital content for Hearst Connecticut Media. DeRien- was elected the association’s president-elect. At the same zo will be overseeing the group’s eight daily and 13 weekly meeting, the Inland Press Foundation elected Jeremy newspapers, along with their 21 news websites. Halbreich, the CEO of AIM Media Management in Dallas, Texas, as president for the 2018–2019 term. Other elections Robert C. “Bob” Tong, who began delivering the Marin were also held at the meeting. Independent Journal (California) as a paper boy and went on to become an award-winning photojournalist and head Tyler Miller, publisher of the Independent Record in of the photo department, recently died. He was 58. Helena and the Montana Standard in Butte, stepped down from that position to pursue other opportunities in the Dave Gilmore has been named vice president of sales for Helena area. He has been replaced by Anita Fasbender, imPRESSions Worldwide. Gilmore will be responsible for who joined the Independent Record in 1991. sales in North America and will remain based in Southern California. Jerry Wolkowitz, a longtime EMT and journalist, has died nearly six months after a brutal, allegedly racially motivat- Robert Pinarski has been named general manager of the ed beating left him on life support. He was 56. Wolkowitz Observer-Reporter (Pennsylvania). The announcement was a freelancer who often contributed to the Asbury Park came from Perry Nardo, regional publisher for Ogden Press (New Jersey). Newspapers. The company recently took ownership of the Observer-Reporter. Pinarski previously served as publisher Tom Wiley has been named president of Capital Newspa- of the Herald-Standard of Uniontown and the Greene pers and publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, taking County Messenger in Waynesburg. Carole DeAngelo has over for John Humenik. Lee Enterprises owns half of been named advertising director at the Observer-Reporter. Capital Newspapers, which publishes the State Journal, The Capital Times and several other newspapers. Hume- Grace Dalmolin has been promoted to Observer-Reporter nik, who served double duty in Madison as publisher of the digital marketing manager. Dalmolin works for the com- State Journal and Lee vice president of news, will now be pany her family owned for 116 years. “I was excited to join vice president of news full time. He will continue to work the family newspaper, but I also wanted to be involved with out of Madison. Wiley has been Lee's corporate director of something new,” said the daughter of Tom Northrop, the sales and marketing since 2017, his second stint with the longtime publisher of Observer Publishing, which has been company after joining Lee in 2003, becoming vice president sold to Wheeling-based Ogden Newspapers. of sales for media operations in St. Louis from 2005 to 2010. The Albany Herald (Georgia) has appointed Carlton The Associated Press has appointed Julie Tucker, a mar- Fletcher editor of The Herald and AlbanyHerald.com, and keting executive with extensive experience in media, to sales trainer Heather Harrison has been promoted to head the news agency’s global marketing operations. retail sales manager.

Houston Chronicle executive editor Nancy Barnes, who Michael McCarter has been named executive editor for led the newspaper to its first Pulitzer Prize, has been the Evansville Courier & Press and Henderson Gleaner (In- named senior vice president of News for National Public diana). He succeeds former editor George Spohr, who died Radio. in July from cancer at age 37.

Linda Kay, a pioneering Chicago Tribune sportswriter and Karen Andreas has been elected president of the Mas- columnist, died after a bout with cancer. She was 66. sachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. Andreas Is regional publisher of The Salem News and North of Boston Matt DeRienzo has been named vice president of news Media Group,

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PALLET JACK CHARGERS 1 MAC Quantum 2200 01158240 12/31/84 480VAC / 24Volt 2 Gould GERR6-450-S1 E340508 12/31/84 480VAC / 4A 3 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 06119885 2006 120VAC 4 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 06119886 2006 120VAC 5 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 07301357 12/19/07 120VAC

LABELING EQUIPMENT 1 AccraPly Model 5203HS 2008 2 Image Printer Model 2000 2008

HOPPER LOADERS 1 Hopper Loaders GMA/AF 200 96.0200.22 #2 1996

SKID LEVELERS 1 Skid Leveler-17 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-02 6/2/98 Rol-Lift 2 Skid Leveler-7 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-06 6/2/98 Rol-Lift 3 Skid Leveler-9 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-08 6/2/98 Rol-Lift 4 Skid Leveler-10 M2425S67FG42E41M01 102210 6/2/98 Rol-Lift 5 Skid Leveler-13 M2425S67FG42E41 160952-02 9/25/00 Rol-Lift 6 Skid Leveler-18 M2425S67FG42E41 160952-04 9/25/00 Rol-Lift 7 Skid Leveler-20 M2425S67FG42E41 160952-06 9/25/00 Rol-Lift 8 Skid Leveler - 16 Parts only

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TABLE JOGGERS 1 Joggers SYNTRON / 2 Joggers SYNTRON / 3 Joggers SYNTRON / 4 Joggers SYNTRON / 5 Joggers SYNTRON / 6 Joggers SYNTRON / 7 Joggers SYNTRON / 8 Joggers SYNTRON / 9 Joggers SYNTRON / 10 Joggers SYNTRON /

FERAG CASSETTES Ferag 98 each

PRINT SHOP EQUIP 1 Offset Press, 2 color Multilith / 1862 2 Offset Press, 1 color Multilith / 1250 3 Offset Press, 2 color Multilith / 1250 4 Comb binding machine (manual) ibico AG HB24 5 Comb binding machine (electric) ibico AG EP21

KODAK NELA-CREO 1 Plate Loader 02953-01 & 02940-01 Two each 2 Plate Loader Cassettes Four each

NELA 1 Bender VCP-7411-02 BG707210 2 Bender VCP-7411-01 BG707205 3 Conveyors Various

GLUNZ & JENSEN 1 Pre-Bake Oven CPO 85 Three each

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2 Plate Processor Quartziii 85 Three each

AIR COMPRESSOR 1 1,000 cfm compressor Quincy QSI-1000

AIR DRYER 1 Air Dryer Quincy QFD 1650 2 Air Dryer Quincy QFD 1650 3 Air Dryer Quincy QPNC-500

PKG MAINT SHOP 1 Parts Washer BAC DM-32 2 15-1/2" drill press Craftsman (On a stand) 3 Hydraulic Press Dayton (3Z915) 4 Drill press Craftsman (Table mounted)

PRESS STITCHER 1 Inline stitcher Motterstitch Stitcher Model 103 KBA specific

SPARE MOTORS 3 HP, 3,400 RPM, 40 VDC motor, Type Dynamatic Adjusto Speed, Model Delivery bed motor for Harris 1 GSA MO-200076-0903 1.5 HP, 220/440 VAC, motor Frame Reuland, Model 8422-BX2754 Reel rotation motors 2 AEL-147 1.5 HP, 220/440 VAC, motor Frame Reuland, Model 8422-BX2755 Reel rotation motors 3 AEL-148 5 HP, 230/460 Vac, 1750 RPM, Frame Baldor Super E, Model VEM 3665T New in box 4 184 TC 5 HP, 230/460 Vac, 1750 RPM, Frame Baldor Super E, Model VEM 3665T Used 5 184 TC Gast Regenerative Blower, Model 1 HP, Used 6 R4310a-2; SPC 4265 75 HP, 230/460 VAC, 1770 RPM, Frame Baldor Type 4272M, # M2551T New 7 365T

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NetworkAIR FM Series Model M40M-EKA-ESU, 40 kw, dual cooling unit 1 APC CRAC1

24 head, double drop, upgraded software for double drop; new S/N: 96.2000.6, 5/17/96 1 GMA / SLS 2000 spare computer; with Qunicy vacuum pump

Waste conveyor w/ diverter and dual compactors; includes power Karl Schmidt Conveyor and control panel; secton 1 = 61' 5-5/8", Section 2 = 58' 4-1/8", Section 3 = 169' 6-3/16", Section 4 = 85' 1"

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