Kasturi Balaji is director of Kasturi & Sons, which publishes The Hindu in Chennai, India. Balaji joined the IFRA Board in 2008, and serves on numerous IFRA Committees. We spoke to him during a Board meeting in January.
Mohamed K. Alayyan is the owner and CEO of Jordan United Press, publisher of Al Ghad, Jordan’s most independent Arabic daily newspaper. Alayyan joined the IFRA Board in 2006. Here he discusses how his newspaper is dealing with the industry cr ...>
IFRA CEO Reiner Mittelbach discusses the association's new target-group-oriented structure with Editor in Chief Dean Roper, as well as how IFRA and the industry are dealing with today's challenges.
Editorial outsourcing is a hot topic in our industry. AAP business unit Pagemasters has shot to fame as it wins business globally. PANPA’s Brett Taylor meets its managing director Bruce Davidson to discover future plans.PANPA Bu ...>
By Dietmar Schantin
As a consequence of the economic downturn and recession, many publishing houses are engaging once again in intensive discussions about how to reduce costs in the newsroom. In the United States, many newspapers st ...>
Saša Praprotnik, commercial manager of zurnal24.si, the news portal for Slovenian newspaper publisher zurnal24, will serve as co-chair of the IFRA South-East Europe Conference on 25-26 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia, along ...>
Dragan Vucicevic is chief editor of the Press Publishing Group in Serbia. The group publishes four printed editions: the daily Press, the regional business daily Biznis, a monthly magazine Fame, and a monthly tennis magazine Total Tenis. T ...>
Interview with Elan Lohmann, Publisher of News24.com, South Africa’s premier online news service owned by 24.com, a Media24, Naspers company. Lohmann is also the co-chairman of this year's Beyond the Printed Word Conference, which takes pl ...>
When we talk about the future of our industry we tend to concentrate on developments of the media and communication technology. But social developments will influence the media markets as well as technical developments. Who is going to use al ...>
by Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director, Deputy CEO
Is the change from broadsheet to compact newspaper formats a strategy that can help offset dropping reader numbers and advertising income? The results of an Ifra eye-tracking stu ...>
By Andy Williams, Ifra Research Engineer“Metrology, standardisation and conformity assessment are the pillars of knowledge for developing a technical infrastructure, and thereby enabling sustainable development and full p ...>
By Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director and Deputy CEO“RFID is not just a technical solution, but a philosophy. Even if the technical concept needs time to standardise further and become established, the philosophy is o ...>
newspaper techniques: Metro International just released results for their first quarter 2007. The Swedish operations that used to be the flagship of the group in terms of financial success are not doing well. Do you believe, as ...>
Available in French and Germantechniques de presse : Le Télégramme de Brest a lancé le 18 avril un journal télévisé quotidien (5 jours sur 7) sur son site Internet. Le « JTWeb » dure 5 à 7 minutes. Il e ...>
By Kerry J. Northrup
Newspapers are usually thought of as print media, but it would be more accurate to recognise them as paged media.
After all, it is the paged presentation of news and advertising that really defines the newspa ...>
New newsroom strategies for a changing audienceBy Dr. Dietmar Schantin, Director of Ifra Newsplex, schantin@ifra.com
Media convergence, cross media publishing, integrated newsroom – These terms have begun appearing in man ...>
I just received "newspaper techniques" [February 2007, FOCUS report on digital printing for newspapers]… I agree that the main obstacle to digital printing is the pricing policy of the digital printing manufacturers. The so-called "click char ...>
Marktforschung einmal anders: Ein neues Verfahren zur Leserbefragung via Internet soll Zeitungen Aufschluss darüber bringen, welche Artikel gelesen und wie sie bewertet werden. Die Saarbrücker Zeitung hat einen ersten Pilottest mit dem neuen ...>
The newspaper industry in the Middle East is in a healthy state and in a position to mobilise considerably more resources. Its possibilities to do so were the focal point of the two-day Middle East Conference of the international newspaper pu ...>
ReaderRating heißt ein neues Verfahren zur Internet-Leserbefragung, das Zeitungen Auskunft darüber geben soll, wie die einzelnen Artikel bei den Lesern ankommen. Nebenbei kann es von der Redaktion als einfaches Tool zur Kommunikation mit ...>
By Ifra Research Manager Manfred Werfel
CIP4, JDF, IfraTrack and now also Prime Network -- these terms and names of organisations that deal with production and workflow control may cause confusion for a lot of people. Let us try to ...>
newspaper techniques:If everybody can be a journalist –how important is quality?Arend van den Berg: The most important task is to change news into relevant information for the audiences. A business paper shoul ...>
A report from the show floor of IfraExpo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by Manfred Werfel, Ifra Research Director and Deputy CEO
At drupa 2000, KBA showed its Cortina compact press, the first waterless offset newspaper press, in pu ...>
Remarks by Ifra CEO Reiner Mittelbach on the occasion of the annual Ifra press conference at the opening of IfraExpo 2006:
“Every so often, Ifra re-examines itself – its strengths and where it could be stronger, where it faces compe ...>
by Michael Heipel, Director of Exhibitions, Ifra
A global media event, such as the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany, offers a good opportunity for experimentation to creative newspaper producers. This four-week football feast in a ...>
Since March, Thomson Financial, a US news agency specialized on finance information, has been using computers to generate finance news. The purpose is to be able to serve its clients as quickly as possible. newspaper techniques spoke with Mat ...>
Every time I start to demonstrate to an audience how useful the little Hewlett Packard CapShare handheld scanner can be for newspaper work, I know it isn’t fair and it isn’t nice. They are going to want one. And they can’t have it.
However ...>
By Manfred Werfel
When talking about newspaper printing we talk about single width and double width presses, CTP plate making an ink/water balance and the recently updated newspaper printing standard ISO 12647-3. All these technical ...>
by Philippe Bonnet
Ethical funds are just like any other funds. One of the world’s most famous index providers, Dow Jones, has selected 200 socially responsible and high-performing companies in the area of sustainable deve ...>
The Evening Echo in Cork, Ireland, printed a special edition in Cardiff, Wales, within one hour of the final whistle in the Heineken European Rugby Cup. According to Dan Linehan, chief executive of the Evening Echo, the newspaper used this hi ...>
técnicas de prensa: ¿Qué tipo de información ofrece El Planeta: la misma que cualquier otro periódico en Estados Unidos, pero en castellano o es una información de interés específico para la comunidad hispana de New England?
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Running a daily newspaper under ideal circumstances can be a frantic and strenuous job. Running one during a natural disaster is a task that few adjectives can begin to describe, yet it is one that editors in coastal cities face again and aga ...>
by Manfred Werfel
The press manufacturers offer different concepts: Large 6/2 presses, small presses of low height, waterless presses with automatic plate change, total software controlled print processes and inline imaged plates. B ...>
Which CTP imaging technology for which operating conditions?By Uwe Junglas
Ifra Consulting Director
CTP is the established standard in all regions of the world.
In Western Europe, the market is saturated and it is acc ...>
Interview mit Vanja Tomac, Druckereidirektor von Novi list in Rijeka, Kroatien
zeitungstechnik: Novi list hat sich in der post-sozialistischen Zeit als selbstständige Zeitung behauptet. Sie stehen technologisch auf der Höhe d ...>
by Michael Heipel, Director of Exhibitions, Ifra
The good news first for all those who perhaps had doubts: Australia can become the 2006 World Champion! I will explain how in just a moment. But let’s start with a few fundamental wor ...>
newspaper techniques: You have analysed the costs and productivity of Macintosh computers and Windows PCs and presented the results as a research report. What prompted this project?
Andreas Pfeiffer: During previous re ...>
The German SAPRO company in Gutenacker, near Frankfurt, produces more than 2500 pages weekly for magazines and daily newspapers, making it one of the most highly productive composition companies in the German print media industry. Directors M ...>
By Dr. Dietmar Schantin
Trends in the worldwide media industry have clearly shown that in order to guarantee long-term success with the audience in the future, it will be vital to change from a single product-oriented to a multimedi ...>
By Manfred Werfel
Planning a new investment in presses and mailroom systems is not an easy task nowadays. There are so many different configurations, such as single or double or triple width presses, and technical options available ...>
newspaper techniques: What has the reaction been like to the new format so far from readers and advertisers?Jon Housman: I can give you both sides, and actually, I think they’re related. They’re both very posit ...>
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Entrevista realizada a Antoni Cambredó, presidente de aede.
tdp: Entre los datos que se han presentado en el Libro blanco de la prensa diaria 2006, auspiciado por aede, se observa un repunte de ...>
The market shares of daily newspapers are decreasing slowly but continually. Diametrically opposed to this trend is the development of media services for the generation that has grown up with mobile telephones. 2006 should be the year in whic ...>
There is a wide range of media on offer for German speakers who live beyond the borders of the German-speaking countries. Persons interested in ensuring that they do not lose their knowledge of the German language can choose from about 3000 p ...>
Prof. Christof Seeger hat an der Hochschule der Medien im Studiengang Mediapublishing in Stuttgart den erst im Jahr 2005 gegründeten Lehrstuhl für das Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenwesen. Die Hochschule der Medien gehört mit ihren 17 Studiengäng ...>
You have successfully transformed your newspaper into tabloid format. Readers are happy, circulation is steady if not actually rising and advertisers are no more grumpy than usual. Printing stinks, but then it always did. What now? Can you po ...>
Salzburger Nachrichten Verlagsgesellschaft is a medium-sized, family-owned publishing company in Salzburg, the main city of the Austrian state of the same name. The main edition of the newspaper is published daily in the Berlin format in a pr ...>
Although past the time when they were considered an oxymoron, mobile revenues still resemble a contradiction in terms. With reason too: news is a tiny fragment of the (paid) content segment, in itself only a subset of the total mobile market. ...>
In general the development of new mobile services has stagnated. This, despite new technology and advanced mobile phones. Only a few markets such as Finland, Japan, and Norway are really prospering.
Why is this?
Blame the telecom operat ...>
Gavin K. O’Reilly was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer of Independent News & Media PLC (INM) in December 2001. He joined the international media group back in 1993 and has held various roles including Managing Director of its yellow pa ...>
Craig Newmark, founder of the hugely popular U.S. classified ads portal Craigslist, gave the participants of the Zeitung Online 2005 conference, held recently by Ifra and BDZV in Berlin, a virtual welcome. He was not actually present, but Dr. ...>
On 23 and 24 June, Catania (Sicily) was the meeting point for some 180 representatives of Italy’s most important publishing companies, industry suppliers, etc. at the Ifra Italia 2005 conference. Relations between advertisers and dailies and ...>
Als Moderator der Veranstaltung am Samstag, den 9.Juli 2005 im Staatstheater Mainz hat man den bekannten Politologen, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Falter, Ordinarius für Politikwissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, gewinnen können, der ...>
Das Buch erschien zum 40jährigen Jubiläum der Ifra und gliedert sich in ein ausführliches Vorwort, das die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Zeitungen und der Drucktechnik von Anbeginn beschreibt, und die Geschichte der Ifra in chronologischer Abfol ...>
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the newspaper, newspaper techniques conducted an interview with Reiner Mittelbach, CEO, Ifra, and Manfred Werfel, Research Director and Deputy CEO of Ifra, about the relevance of this historical ...>
Publish Asia went to Bangkok in April and turned in one of the most thought-provoking conferences for a long while.
The Ifra Asia-run publishing summit took many of the hot button issues confronting the newspaper industry – from the compa ...>
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