www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com September/October 2016 The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid production. Commitment to print, commitment to community uBY SARAH ZOOK MANAGING EDITOR Based on the notion that readers in small com- International, during Graph Expo 2015 (see N&T munities want and need useful, informative news, September/October 2015). The press anchors the John P. Garrett, owner and publisher of Community company’s 36,000-square-foot purpose-built green- Impact Newspaper, has been growing his company field printing facility. The press is configured with since its founding in 2005. Garrett and his wife/busi- three Contiweb FB pasters, three four-high towers ness partner Jennifer continue to look for innova- and a Goss folder with a quarter-folder. And in Octo- tive ways to deliver high-quality journalism to small ber, CIN is adding a Presstek 75DI Sheetfed press to towns across Texas. handle the growing insert and direct mail business. Community Impact Newspaper has distribution This major investment in print sets CIN apart to some 1.6 million people with 22 newspapers cover- from many other newspapers. ing 36 cities and communities throughout Austin, “Our readers love our paper,” Garrett said. “This Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth. is not just a hunch, we go out to the community and “We live in the information age, but no one people say they love our paper. We’re not going to be knows what’s happening in their own backyard,” Gar- foolish but we’re going to double down.” rett told News & Tech. “Our goal is to fix that.” With a new printing plant up and running near Creativity key its headquarters in Pflugerville, Texas, Garrett and In a bid to increase personalization for the Being creative about the print product and distribu- print newspaper, John Garrett opened the his team are utilizing the most modern press technol- Community Impact Newspaper printing tion is key to Garrett’s strategy and the autoplate ogy to create highly personalized inserts and distri- plant in P ugerville, Texas. technology is a huge part of that. CIN selected bution to the communities the papers serve. Fujifilm no-process thermal plates and workflow to Garrett purchased a new press, a Magnum Compact from Goss complement its Magnum Compact press. Commitment continued on page 5 Connect Publisher Solutions helps papers master mobile uBY SARAH ZOOK MANAGING EDITOR If there is anything we’ve learned as an in- that since 2011, the rate of U.S. adult smartphone portunity for university-based newspapers. In the dustry in the last five years, it’s that diversifying ownership has increased from 46 to 82 percent. last year, Kaplan and his team have grown their content distribution routes increases audience This presents a unique problem for news- technology in order to make the digital landscape and revenue for newspapers. Audiences of all papers trying to take advantage of where their more appealing to community dailies, as well. ages are fickle when it comes to how they access readers want to be. The bottom line is that “We are a multi-channel local news adver- their news. However, the Knight Foundation content creation remains the most important tising app platform,” Kaplan said. “Newspapers reported that 89 percent of U.S. mobile users task for any newsroom. For smaller papers and are so busy, we want this to be an easily man- accesses news and information via their mobile ones strapped for funding, the thought of hir- aged distribution channel.” devices. That number is significant considering ing a dedicated team to maintain an app and a mobile-friendly website seems Use at USC impossible. The University of South Carolina in Columbia Connect Publisher Solutions uses Connect Publisher Solution as the mobile has an answer for papers who version of student newspaper, The Daily Gam- Turn to just don’t have the funds or the cock. There are also links to all the social media, page 37 manpower for app development. radio stations and other campus services, said The company works with news- Sarah Scarborough, director of student media at for expanded rooms to provide local news and the university. industry advertising app platforms. “All of the news that goes through the RSS In 2008, Shawn Kaplan, feed goes to the app,” Scarborough said. “In any coverage co-founder and director of busi- media organization you have to be in so many ness development for Connect different places at once. Shawn and his crew News & Tech September/October 2016 1 Publisher Solutions, saw an op- Publisher solutions continued on pageu 6 www.newsandtech.com KBA-Digital & Web Solutions Possibilities, Expansion, Growth... 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KBA North America, Dallas, Texas phone: 469-532-8000, [email protected], www.kba.com 2 t September/October 2016 News & Tech uIndustry Installs & Upgrades ProImage launches newest workflow, tablet publishing apps ProImage launched its newest operation,” Rick Shafranek, ProImage’s for real-time monitoring. Page versions workflow,” Shafranek said. “For any workflow generation, NewsWay-X, at vice president of sales and marketing are visually compared, with changes kind of publisher, we see mobile pub- Graph Expo in September. said in a statement. and version visible across all views. lishing as the next logical step.” The new version, based on an This latest version enables print ProImage said NewsWay-X is fully Eversify integrates with any edito- HTML5 Web client, features a single, operators to fully monitor production scalable to accommodate growing rial , CMS or Adobe InDesign-based integrated user interface and a simple, with a dashboard that provides full production loads. layout system and allows publishers to rules-based workflow configuration. edition overviews and enhanced pro- ProImage also rolled out the lat- push content to a number of different Capitalizing on its intuitive user duction progress status reporting. est updates to its Eversify mobile pub- platforms. interface, ProImage said NewsWay-X NewsWay-X’s Press View enables lishing software at Graph Expo. In ad- Eversify’s server captures content uses a push server to provide real-time a press-oriented view of production, dition to its newspaper and magazine from any of these content systems updates to the Web client. with oversight of production and press publishing capabilities, Shafranek said and it is automatically processed The new app provides integrated runs down to the cylinder level. the vendor is also marketing the app through ProImage’s intelligent content production planning and imposition The creation of plate layouts has to in-house corporate organizations to mapping and template technology tools that interface to a publisher’s also been simplified, ProImage said, allow employees to access corporate to produce an issue that is ready to editorial, advertising and press control thanks to the HTML5-based graphical documents, such as manuals, techni- preview and edit. systems. layout editor. cal specifications, and brochures on Eversify is also based on HTML5, “We have created a highly flex- NewsWay-X’s Live Edition Tree their mobile devices. which enables the embedding of ible solution where workflows can be houses production workflow and pub- “The print scene is constantly multimedia content at any stage of designed by simple drag-and-drop lication structures and is color-coded looking for new ways to optimize content creation. Hearst debuts multi-media display Hearst launched a multimedia installation dubbed HearstLive outside Activate the Space designed and integrated the LED technology as the hardware its New York City headquarters. The display showcases continuously updated partner. The HearstLive structure parallels the “diagrid” structure of Hearst Tower. news, entertainment and information at street level. “At Hearst, we are constantly delivering exciting ways for audiences to The concept and execution was developed by New York-based creative connect with our content,” said Phil Wiser, chief technology officer of Hearst. digital agency Code and Theory and a team of editors and designers at Hearst “HearstLive presents an entirely new medium to deliver news, entertainment are tasked with producing content multiple times a day. Sedna software pow- and information, and allows for an unprecedented level of updates and en- ers the LED screens made up of 1,348 custom-engineered modules. gagement with our brands.” Star Tribune Media Company completes 1st phase of retrofit Electronic Design Group and Newspaper Solutions, LLC (NSi) entered web systems. The milestone, which was completed on September 12th, into a contract with the Star Tribune to upgrade its inserter lines with dual integrated the existing systems to the manroland web systems PECOM. This motor NP632 inserters and NP125 delivery conveyers as well as three drop allows for daily testing even during installation. stations. Both the inserter and the delivery conveyor are replaced with current “The manroland web systems installation and engineering team has been PLC’s and AC drives. A door mounted touch screen will be provided for each extremely responsive to our needs and schedule demands,” Kevin Desmond, gripper and inserter to display machine status including permissives and Star Tribune Co.