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Diversifying printing plant's product portfolio

Matthias Tietz makes a compelling case for for traditional newspaper printers to become print shops that also print newspapers. “To be brutal, every newspaper printer needs to be aware that you are replaceable, and you have been replaceable for a long time.”

Author

Brian Veseling

Date

2015-11-02 17:07

Styria Print Group turns to integrated planning system to boost productivity in production

“The media industry is going through transformation, and while newspapers will survive, dailies will have to take a much closer look at costs,” said Kurt Kribitz, Managing Director, Styria Print Group, Austria, during WAN-IFRA's World Printers Forum conference in Hamburg earlier this month.

Author

Brian Veseling

Date

2015-10-21 16:33

How Axel Springer uses start-up lessons in digital and print

“Innovation should be market driven, not technology driven,” says Thomas Drensek, General Manager Axel Springer Print Management in Germany, in discussing one of the lessons he learned when he and Bild Editor-in-Chief Kai Diekmann made an extended study of start-ups in Silicon Valley during a stay in California.

Author

Brian Veseling

Date

2015-10-08 15:21

'Print finances high-quality journalism'

"I do detect something like a revival of the printed word among publishers," says Hermann Petz, the CEO of the Austrian regional newspaper Tiroler Tagezeitung. "The either-or mentality between printed and online media, which we have been able to observe in the last few years, has lost momentum."

Author

Brian Veseling

Date

2015-08-24 14:12

Small Norwegian paper banking on all-access subscription model and local ties

Hallingdølen in Norway has made its case that it is not just the big-name newspapers which make bold, daring decisions: in 2011, the local paper launched the first paywall in Norway, says its chief editor, Bjarne Tormodsgard.

Author

Brian Veseling

Date

2014-09-22 15:01

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