www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com March/April 2018 The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper and hybrid operations and production. MEGA-CONFERENCE 2018 INVESTING IN NEWSPAPERS Executives share market expertise and vision u BY MARY L. VAN METER NEWS & TECH EDITOR AND PUBLISHER sale team were common themes in the session, as was the sentiment to build newsrooms instead of destroying them. Here's a sample of some of their comments. Jim Moroney, A. H. Belo chairman and CEO, Dallas Morning News publisher Moroney stressed the need for relevant, differentiated and local news and infor- mation in the market. "Because most markets have a local television station that has a website and apps, they are not going to put a paywall up anytime soon," he said. "When the consumer who is actually pretty smart starts looking and says here's a website that I have to pay for and here's a website with the same news, Jim Moroney, chairman of the board and CEO of A. H. Belo; Mark Aldam, COO and which one am I going to visit? It's about local news and information, so news- president of the newspaper division of Hearst; Jeremy Halbreich, chairman and CEO papers have to have more resources than the TV station and make the effort for of AIM Media; and Mark Adams, CEO of Adams Publishing Group. better coverage." Mark Aldam, Hearst executive vice president and COO SAN DIEGO – Executives from Adams Publishing, Hearst, AIM Media and "We believe that newspapers are a growth business but it's not easy one," Aldam A. H. Belo shared ideas and advice on acquisitions, investments and operations said. "At our best performing newspapers, digital ad revenue represents greater at the Key Executives Mega-Conference, held in late February in San Diego. Overall optimism, a belief in local community coverage and a strong, educated Investing in newspapers continued on page 20 NYT debuts AR features for Winter Olympics u NEWS & TECH StAFF REPORT It's been more than six years since newspa- est newspaper to exploit AR when it rolled out immer- ficult to represent on your phone screen. By conjuring pers began experimenting with augmented reality sive storytelling just in time for the Winter Olympics. athletes as if they were in the room, scale is conveyed features. The Philadelphia Inquirer was among the Through a smartphone's camera, NYT has endeavored by the context of your surroundings." first, adding interactive features that bridged the to make big things possible on a small screen and al- print edition to a reader's smart device in 2012 (see low its readers to explore information in new ways. Advertisers get involved News & Tech, May 2012). AR technology, although The publisher's first AR-enabled article was Olympic sponsor Ralph Lauren partnered with The not as widely adopted as the industry may have en- a preview piece for the Winter Olympics in which Times for an AR experience that included Team USA visioned it would be by now, continues to evolve and readers were able to meet Olympic athletes, includ- ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani in AR model- make inroads with newspaper publishers. ing figure skater Nathan Chen, big air snowboarder ing the official Ralph Lauren Team USA Opening The New York Times in February became the lat- Anna Gasser and short track speed skater J.R. Celski. Ceremony Parade uniforms. The feature allowed readers to pause The Ralph Lauren AR feature was produced by the athletes in mid-performance to NYT Co.'s experiential design agency Fake Love, and get to know more about them. marked the first AR experience from an advertiser to "The Olympics project — a major live inside the NYT app for iOS. NYT said it devel- Turn to collaboration among the newsroom, oped the AR experience leveraging Apple's ARKit, design and product staffs that I led, as which is available to iPhone and iPad users with page 41 NYT's director of immersive platforms devices running iOS 11. The publisher said it will for expanded — demonstrates one of AR's richest soon bring the AR experience to Android as well, and benefits: deepening the explanatory that it will be based on ARCore. industry value of visual journalism," NYT's Gra- Roberts explained that rather than asking read- coverage ham Roberts told readers in February. ers to interact with pinch-to-zoom, swipe, or click, "Scale, for example, is incredibly dif- NYT continued on page 6 News & Tech March/April 2018 u 1 www.newsandtech.com Take Control Goss drive and controls upgrades available for Goss and other manufacturers' equipment. Goss: Your Total Solutions Provider ENHANCEMENTS • UPGRADES • PARTS SERVICE • PRE-OWNED EQUIPMENT TRAINING • EQUIPMENT MOVES • CUSTOM MANUFACTURING www.gossinternational.com 2 t March/April 2018 News & Tech uIndustry News Main-Post group invests in Koenig & Bauer towers With the purchase of two highly automated Commander CL About 1,000 people are currently working for the company, part printing towers, the Main-Post media group is pursuing its chosen of the Pressedruck media group in Augsburg and producing dailies path of gradual modernization. the Main-Post, Schweinfurter Tagblatt, Schweinfurter Volkszeitung, "Piece by piece, we are upgrading our printing presses so that Hassfurter Tagblatt, Bote vom Hassgau and Volksblatt. they represent the latest state of the art. For us, the two new print- In addition to the two printing towers, the company is investing ing towers also indicate our clear commitment to printed news- in two Pastomat reelstands and two Patras A reel loading systems. papers," says David Brandstatter, managing director of Main-Post, The automation package consists of RollerTronic roller locks, based in Wurzburg, Germany. CleanTronic cylinder washing systems, color register and cut-off The company previously invested in a new folding unit in 2015. register controls, color measuring and control systems and fully With the two new printing towers, which are due to start automatic plate changing systems including plate lift. production at the beginning of 2019, up to 47,000 newspaper copies The Commander CL is controlled via a new ErgoTronic console with 32 pages each can be printed in one hour. with EasyTronic. Manroland gets order for Cuba paper Manroland web systems has its first Granma, the company reports. cent UNISET press installation and upgrade press order of 2018: China National Com- The presses will be installed in the projects in Cuba. plete Plant Import & Export Corporation cities of Havana, Holguin and Santa Clara Manroland web systems, based in Limited (Complant) has ordered nine highly where they will produce Granma and other Augsburg, Germany, is part of the Lubeck- automated UNISET newspaper press lines newspaper products and books. based Possehl Group. for the Cuban government newspaper The order is a continuation of the re- Take Control Indian paper orders a Cromoman 4-1 Manroland has sold a three tower Cromoman 4-1 press to Bar- The Cromoman is a 3-tower 4-1 press that can cater to average taman, based in Kolkata and one of the leading Bengali language run length between 250,000- 400,000 copies per night. newspapers coming out of the eastern part of India. The press is the "This deal is very important for manroland web systems as it Goss drive and controls upgrades available for second Cromoman 4-1 to be installed in eastern India, according to signals the entry of the Augsburg-based behemoth into the flourish- manroland. ing Indian language newspaper market," said Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Apart from the Kolkata edition, the paper has three editions of manroland India. "The Indian language newspaper market is Goss and other manufacturers' equipment. published daily from three major towns of West Bengal, Siliguri, growing at a CAGR of more than 8 percent. Today 9 out of 10 top Burdwan and Midnapore. dailies in India are players in the regional space," he says. QIPC continues to expand in India Goss: Your Total Solutions Provider QIPC, a Dutch specialist in measure- control for its printing plant in Kolkata. whatsoever,” Vijay Pandya says Vijay Pan- ment and control systems for the web offset QIPC systems had already been installed in dya, managing director of QIPC-EAE India. the plant, but with an extra printing tower Darpan Conclave ordered two mRC- 3D ENHANCEMENTS • UPGRADES • PARTS market, recently received five new orders from printing concerns in the Kolkata having since been added to the Manugraph cameras with an identical configuration for SERVICE • PRE-OWNED EQUIPMENT region of West Bengal: CDC Printers, Sristi Cityline press, further automation was es- their new TPH Orient press. TRAINING EQUIPMENT MOVES CUSTOM MANUFACTURING Graphic (two separate orders), Darpan Con- sential. The final Indian order came from • • clave and NAP Printers. A sixth order was Sristi Graphic placed two identical Print Plus. The printing plant in Bhiwandi placed by Bhiwandi-based Print Plus. orders for its two Naph presses, involving a is about to have two mRC-3D cameras for At the beginning of the summer, CDC double order for two mRC-3D cameras for color register installed on a Prakash press. Printers ordered two mRC-3D cameras for color register control, fitted with AIMS (Au- The automation system will lead to con- color register control and automatic cut-off tomatic Ink Mist Shield). “Prior to this, Sristi siderable savings in labor costs and help www.gossinternational.com Graphic had no automated color register reduce waste. News & Tech March/April 2018 u 3 Volume 30, No. 2 News & Tech P.O. Box 478 Beaver Dam, WI 53916 p: 303.575.9595 www.newsandtech.com Editor & Publisher March/April 2018 Mary L.