Freedom ENC Communications Inc. completed consolidation for the production of its North Carolina dailies The Daily Press in Jacksonville, The Free Press in Kinston and The Sun Journal in New Bern together with commercial work, at its Jacksonville, N.C. plant. The publisher installed ProImage’s browser-based NewsWay app to manage the multiple workflows involved.
“NewsWay has proven to be extremely flexible, and the technical support we’ve received has been superior,” said Jeff Ashe, COO, Freedom ENC Communications.
NewsWay generates edition plans for all papers, builds editions from PDF page files, monitors throughput and tracks and notifies users of events. The app provides integration and workflow management from an Advanced Publishing Technology editorial system to the load balancing of RIPs and Screen computer-to-plate machines and will also be managing the transmission of TIFF data to Peretta ink setting equipment, ProImage said.
Other Freedom properties using NewsWay include the Orange County (Calif.) Register, the Daily Press in Victorville, Calif., the Appeal-Democrat in Marysville, Calif., the Sun in Yuma, Ariz., the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., the News-Herald in Panama City, Fla., the Lima (Ohio) News and the Odessa (Texas) American.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Dow Jones closing Riverside plan
Dow Jones and Co. said it will close its Riverside, Calif., print site, with production of The Wall Street Journal and other products reportedly to be transferred to the Los Angeles Times.
The Times didn’t return calls seeking comment.
The Riverside facility produced more than 135,000 copies per day of The Journal, and it also printed Barron's and other newspapers slated for Southern California distribution.
The site's closure brings to six the number of plants News Corp. has shuttered since it acquired Dow Jones in late 2007. In addition to Riverside, DJ targeted for closure plants in Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Fla., and Des Moines, Iowa.
The Times didn’t return calls seeking comment.
The Riverside facility produced more than 135,000 copies per day of The Journal, and it also printed Barron's and other newspapers slated for Southern California distribution.
The site's closure brings to six the number of plants News Corp. has shuttered since it acquired Dow Jones in late 2007. In addition to Riverside, DJ targeted for closure plants in Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Fla., and Des Moines, Iowa.
Gannett set to roll out self-serve obits
Gannett Co. Inc. is rolling out self-service obituary software, with The Indianapolis Star slated to be the first paper to offer the capability beginning next month.
According to Annette Gould, Gannett's manager of advertising technology, the publisher will use software from Wave2 Media Solutions to support the service. Funeral directors and other users can submit information to a dedicated Web site, from which it will be formatted and placed in the paper's host CMS. Some 20 Gannett papers will begin offering self-service obituary capabilities this year.
According to Annette Gould, Gannett's manager of advertising technology, the publisher will use software from Wave2 Media Solutions to support the service. Funeral directors and other users can submit information to a dedicated Web site, from which it will be formatted and placed in the paper's host CMS. Some 20 Gannett papers will begin offering self-service obituary capabilities this year.
Torstar sets insert Web site
Two firms, including Toronto Star owner Metroland Media Group, said they will launch a Web site that features newspaper insert content.
The site, Zip2Save.com, will launch Oct. 1.
Metroland is teaming up with LocalPoint Media to operate the site, which is based on Metroland's existing Flyerland.ca Canadian newspaper insert Web initiative. Twenty U.S. publishers are participating in the site, including GateHouse Media, Sun-Times Media Group and Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
The site, Zip2Save.com, will launch Oct. 1.
Metroland is teaming up with LocalPoint Media to operate the site, which is based on Metroland's existing Flyerland.ca Canadian newspaper insert Web initiative. Twenty U.S. publishers are participating in the site, including GateHouse Media, Sun-Times Media Group and Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Nela moves, acquires German newspaper vendor
Nela purchased and moved into its new U.S. headquarters, a 60,000-square-foot building in western Wisconsin. The company, which just celebrated its ninth anniversary in the United States, said the move solidifies its long-term commitment to the North and South American markets.
The new address is 610 Whitetail Blvd., River Falls, WI 54022. The new phone/fax number is 715.425.1900, and the new technical support number is 715.425.1944.
Meantime, Nela said it acquired major parts of German printing manufacturing company 2B Prazisionstechnik GmbH. While Nela is active in the newspaper and commercial segments of the printing industry, 2B is mainly active in the newspaper sector with a focus in middle and southern Europe, as well as some Asian countries.
The new address is 610 Whitetail Blvd., River Falls, WI 54022. The new phone/fax number is 715.425.1900, and the new technical support number is 715.425.1944.
Meantime, Nela said it acquired major parts of German printing manufacturing company 2B Prazisionstechnik GmbH. While Nela is active in the newspaper and commercial segments of the printing industry, 2B is mainly active in the newspaper sector with a focus in middle and southern Europe, as well as some Asian countries.
Aussie edit outsourcer sets up shop
Pagemasters, an Australian firm that provides editorial outsourcing services to newspapers, said it teamed up with The Canadian Press to provide design, copy-editing and headline-writing services to North American newspapers.
Pagemasters already provides similar services to a number of newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Daily Telegraph.
Pagemasters, a unit of Australian Associated Press, currently produces more than 10,000 editorial pages per month in four production centers.
“We will be heavily involved with The Canadian Press in setting up editorial production centers in North America, working closely with newspaper publishers as they grapple with the radical changes sweeping the industry,” said AAP CEO Clive Marshall, in a statement.
Pagemasters already provides similar services to a number of newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Daily Telegraph.
Pagemasters, a unit of Australian Associated Press, currently produces more than 10,000 editorial pages per month in four production centers.
“We will be heavily involved with The Canadian Press in setting up editorial production centers in North America, working closely with newspaper publishers as they grapple with the radical changes sweeping the industry,” said AAP CEO Clive Marshall, in a statement.
Clarification
The article, “Tribune notches color register savings,” in the Aug. 17, 2009, Dateline should have reported that Tribune Publishing Co. in Columbia, Mo., was able to cut its paper waste — and not its newsprint consumption — by 25 percent after employing a color registration system from Imaging Technologies Inc. Information supplied by ITI said the paper had cut its waste by 30 percent.
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