Monday, July 13, 2009

In Brief

WIFAG said CEO Peter Boeglin left the company and named Werner Tschan interim manager.

The Washington Times named Karyn Gruenberg marketing director.

The Dallas Morning News named Tracy Martin Taylor publisher of Quick and general manager of arts and entertainment.

PPI Media GmbH named Nina Paul public relations manager, succeeding Robert Friedrichs.

The Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Wash., named Charles Horton president and publisher, succeeding Mike Levi, who retired.

The Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern named Stewart Rieckman general manager and executive editor.

The Denver Post raised its single-copy price from 50 cents to 75 cents, effective July 13. Subscriber rates weren’t affected. Meantime, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said The Post’s circulation rose by almost 150,000 copies — to 371,727 — in the month after the Rocky Mountain News folded Feb. 28.

The New York Times launched its international weekly news supplement in La Razón in Bolivia. The section, which will be published in Spanish, joins a global network of newspapers that carry the seven-year-old weekly.

FFEI released RealVue3D 3.9, the newest version of its 3D print simulation software engineered to enable publishers to convert multipage PDF documents into interactive 3D products. Documents can be rotated and viewed from any angle, giving creators and their clients a true impression of how the final product will look when printed.
www.ffei.co.uk

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries appointed Newstech India Pvt. Ltd., as its sales and service distributor for the company’s line of newspaper offset presses within India.
www.mhi.co.jp

Anygraaf entered into sales and distribution partnerships with newspaper industry suppliers Intergraph Corp. and UltraGraph Technologies, both of south Florida.
Intergraph caters to the Caribbean market, while UltraGraph serves Mexico, South America and Central America.
www.anygraaf.com

MyPressReports was approved as a PAGE Cooperative certified vendor.
www.mypressreports.com

AbitibiBowater said it is providing carbon credits that it has accumulated through its own energy-saving initiatives to offset greenhouse gas emissions occurring during IfraExpo 2009.
www.atibitibowater.com

QuadTech Inc. said it became an authorized sales agent for Procemex-Print web monitoring products in North, Central, and South America. Based in Jyvaskyla, Finland, Procemex Oy Ltd.’s products monitor various locations on the pressline to keep tab on such events as web breaks.
www.quadtechworld.com

ECRM released RIPMate v8.1. The new RIP software upgrade is now available through ECRM and its worldwide dealer network.
www.ecrm.com

E.W. Scripps redesigned Web sites at several papers, including The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, Naples (Fla.) Daily News, the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press and the Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif.

Media General said it would no longer publish Skirt! magazine in Birmingham, Ala., but will continue to publish the special-interest periodical in 17 other markets where it now appears.

Gannett Co. Inc. said it will move production of USA Today from The Batavia (N.Y.) Daily News to the Gannett-owned Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, effective next year.

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