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Sue Clark-Johnson, president of Gannett Co. Inc.'s newspaper division, will retire in late
May, the publisher said. Clark-Johnson spent 40 years with Gannett in a variety of editorial and administrative positions. Gannett said it would
appoint a successor later this year.
Gannett also named Chris Saridakis chief digital officer and Jack Williams president of Gannett Digital Ventures.
PAGE Cooperative named Gretchen Walters to the new position of marketing and membership
development manager. Walters spent the past 12 years in various marketing management positions with Muller Martini Mailroom
Systems.
John C. Hines has been appointed president of HKS Systems Inc.'s new HK Production Logistics
division. Previously the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, Hines will direct the operation of HKPL. Hines will continue
to serve as a director of HK Systems. Meantime, James (Jamie) P. Purko was named vice president and CFO of HK Systems.
The Web Offset Association and the Flint Group named Jeff Wendt as the recipient of this
year's H. Howard Flint II Pressroom Manager of the Year Award. Wendt is with Arandell Corp., a commercial printer in Menomonee Falls, Wis.
Publishers Circulation Fulfillment
Inc. said it has been selected by The Times Ledger Newspapers as its sole home delivery provider for the group's 14 weekly newspapers in the
Queens, N.Y., area.
NewsBank said it released an
improved interface featuring tools that precisely refine search results within its online news databases. The new features are designed to enable
users to narrow the focus of a given search across NewsBank's local, regional, national and international news content.
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Installation
and Project
Support
Specialist Anygraaf USA Inc, an international software developer for the publishing industries, is expanding its North American
office
and has an immediate opening for the position above. See complete ad.
Machinist Dow
Jones and
Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Machinist for our Beaumont, TX printing facility. The Machinist will perform mechanical
maintenance and repair on equipment and systems used for the daily production of our print publications. See complete
ad.
Printing
Press/Post Press
Field
Maintenance Technician Leverage your experience to build a rewarding career with Freedom Communications, Inc., a privately owned,
diverse media company of newspapers, broadcast television stations and interactive media businesses. See complete ad.
Press
Operator
The La Crosse
Tribune has an immediate opening for an experienced press operator for our 18-unit Goss Urbanite offset web printing press. See
complete ad.
Software
Service
Engineers
Applications are invited for software installation and support engineers for a supplier of software solutions to the newspaper industry.
Candidates are required to have knowledge of newspaper production operations and proven experience in working with customers. See complete ad.
Technical
Services
Supervisor
Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is seeking a Technical Services Supervisor for our Palo Alto, CA printing facility.
The Technical Services Supervisor is responsible for assisting in the supervision of plant wide mechanical, electrical, electronic, hardware,
software,... See complete ad.
Lead
Web
Press Operator
The
Villages Daily Sun is hiring full-time Lead pressman to operate, adjust, and maintain printing equipment. Minimum qualifications: 3-5 years
experience with Goss or Dauphin presses. Pay based on experience. Excellent benefits. Call Jake Simmons at 352-753-9652 for more info.
Press
Operator
The Press-Register in Mobile, AL, has an immediate opening for an experienced Press Operator for our MAN Roland GEOMAN 75 Press in our new Printing
Facility. Qualified candidates must have a high school diploma and at least 5 years of offset printing experience. See complete ad.
Outside
Sales Commercial
Print Sales
Rep The Washington Examiner is seeking a seasoned professional with prior success and a depth of experience in commercial printing
sales. In addition to being a cutting edge newspaper company with sister newspapers in Baltimore & San Francisco we have the largest
Urbanite press in the nation. See
complete ad.
Sales Account
Executive Conley
Printing, a
growing magazine printer is looking for a Sales Account Executive. Position is located in Beaver Dam, WI and some travel is required. We are looking
for a highly motivated, detail orientated individual with excellent communication skills. See complete ad.
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| Printing Brokers Midwest web offset
printer producing 2.5+ monthly impressions, currently has available press time. This coldset printing
facility is CTP equipped and capable of meeting strict publishing deadlines. Press formats consist of broadsheet and tabloid web sizes of 25" - 34"
with single run page counts up to 48 broadsheet and 96 tabloid. See
complete ad.
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Cincy Enquirer doubling videos with new system
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The Cincinnati Enquirer said it is moving to an Avid Technology Inc. video production environment to double
the number of video segments it produces to more than 150 per month.
The Enquirer is working with Avid to create a streamlined and more collaborative process for publishing video content on the Web, according to
Kenneth Amos, the paper's multimedia and presentation editor.
Installation of the shared storage and the training of employees on the new system were completed at the end of 2007.
Journalists will be able to work on any video project from their Macintosh or PC-based Avid Xpress Pro systems, simultaneously accessing media assets
stored on an Avid Unity network.
"Video producers at The Enquirer come from all walks of journalistic life -- reporters, photographers, and editors," Amos said in a statement. "The
Enquirer turned to Avid because of its understanding of the news production process and ability to adapt its broadcast technologies to a traditional
print-based newsroom."
The paper has a team of 40 video producers and online editors trained to generate news stories with video elements -- up from eight this time last
year.
Look for more details about The Enquirer's new video capabilities in the February issue of Newspapers & Technology.
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McClatchy launching CCI-anchored data center for Carolinas
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The McClatchy Co. this spring will launch a data center at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, which could eventually link
editorial operations between the publisher's seven papers in the Carolinas.
Anchored by CCI Europe's NewsGate application, The Observer will go live sometime in May, according to Neil Mara, news systems director. At its
outset the data center will link The Observer and The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C., and allow the papers to share content.
"Since McClatchy's purchase of Knight Ridder a year and a half ago, we've been looking at ways we can cooperate, and one of the first things we did
after the sale went through was to get all of the editors together to start talking about how they can improve coverage by coordinating and sharing
information and stories," Mara said.
Look for complete details on the Charlotte data center in the February issue of Newspapers & Technology.
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Seattle Times moving to 46-inch web
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The Seattle Times said it would reduce its web width from 50 inches to 46 inches in a project to be completed in 2009.
Pressline Services Inc. will modify The Times' four Goss International Corp. Colorliner presses to accommodate the new width, according to Katharine
Hunter, The Times' director of operations.
The Times last reduced the press' width in 2005, using PSI in a project that saw the papers shrink their webs from 54 inches to 50 inches. The
presses have a cutoff of 23-9/16 inches.
The Times also produces the Seattle Post-Intelligencer under terms of a joint operating agreement with Hearst Corp.
Meantime, the Chicago Sun-Times last week introduced a smaller-sized paper as parent Sun-Times Media Group Inc. takes steps to reduce production
costs.
The tab shaved an inch off its height, leaving the paper 12.5 inches high by 11.5 inches wide. The Sun-Times last reduced its format in 2006 after a
web width reduction on its six Goss International Corp. Newsliner presses.
Finally, the Sun-Times' crosstown rival, the Chicago Tribune, debuted its narrower format this morning. The paper, now with 12-inch wide pages, also
modified its flag, replacing its 26-year-old white nameplate on blue background with a blue nameplate printed on a white background. The typeface
remains the same. Crews from Goss International modified the Tribune's presses to accommodate the narrower size.
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| Drupa Media Week kicks off
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DUSSELDORF, Germany -- With more than 550 million newspapers printed worldwide each day, the power of the
printed word remains strong, said officials at a weeklong event promoting drupa 2008.
Newspapers are just one segment of the millions of tons of printed materials produced each year, said Albrecht Bolza-Schunemann, chairman of drupa
2008 and chief executive officer of Koenig & Bauer AG.
Bolza-Schunemann said contemporary newspapers have little to fear in comparison to Web sites, particularly since users still rate papers as
friendlier and easier to read. "Consumers rate nothing as highly as newspapers in terms of credibility," he said. Still, he said integrated workflow
and process control will become more critical factors as publishers find ways to cut production costs. "Automation will be a key factor," he
said.
The global volume of printed materials, he said, is increasing at an annual clip of 3 percent to 5 percent. In more populous nations such as China
and India, print is galloping along at double-digit rates, he said.
Bolza-Schunemann, along with drupa CEO Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, kicked off drupa Media Week by touting the power of print. This year's drupa,
from May 29 through June 11, will showcase more than 1,800 exhibitors.
Meantime, Domino Printing Sciences previewed two newspaper-oriented inkjet-based variable-print products it will be displaying at the show.
The two, the K150 inkjet printer and version 4.5 of Domino's Bitjet printing system, both enable high-speed inline inkjet printing and can be
integrated with web offset and flexo presslines.
The K150 uses both low-VOC-solvent and UV-curable inks, Domino said, while the Bitjet sports increased resolution of up to 180 dots per minute and a
specialized print head cover for web applications.
Newspapers & Technology is one of only seven U.S. publications to be selected as a drupa 2008 media partner and the only one whose primary focus is
newspaper production.
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Tribune adds to Agfa foundation
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The Tribune Co. purchased three additional Advantage DL platesetters for The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, bringing to 20 the
number of Agfa violet platesetters installed through the publisher's properties. Most of the papers also use Agfa's Arkitex workflow app.
Of the other Tribune papers, Newsday of Long Island, N.Y., purchased four Polaris units while the (Baltimore) Sun purchased three Advantage DL
platesetters. The Daily Press in Newport News, Va., meantime, installed its second Advantage DL.
Other Tribune papers using Agfa CTP products include the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel and the Morning
Call of Allentown, Pa.
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Lee taps Classified Concepts
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Lee Enterprises is rolling out real estate mapping software from Classified Concepts across half of its 55 daily
newspapers.
Classified Concepts' Open House Locator Map software will let Lee papers print maps that plot out locations of area open houses. The software will
also enable the display of companion maps on each paper's Web site that includes features such as send-to-phone driving directions and aerial
views.
Ad revenue is generated by the advertising and sponsorship opportunities on and around both the print and online maps, Classified Concepts said.
Two of Lee Enterprises' Montana papers are the first to go live with the program, with 23 more expected to deploy the app by April.
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Miracom sets installs
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Miracom Computer Corp. said it installed postpress control software upgrades at more than dozen newspapers during the
second half of 2007. The East Valley Tribune in suburban Phoenix installed MiraSert and MiraGroup software across five legacy Muller Martini Mailroom
Systems SLS-1000 inserters to get better management control, according to Vince Roquemore, the Tribune's director of product packaging.
Among other installs:
•The Saint Cloud (Minn.) Times, MiraSert software on an SLS-2000.
•The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun, MiraSert on a Goss International Corp. NP-630.
•The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., MiraSert on a K&M Newspaper Services G60.
•The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle, MiraSert on an NP-630.
•Tribune Publishing Co., Columbia, Mo., MiraSert on a MMMS 227.
•The Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, Ark., MiraStacks on a Hall dual carrier.
•Capital Newspapers in Madison, Wis., MiraSert on an SLS-2000, MiraBundle and MiraLabel.
•The Star Exponent in Culpeper, Va., MiraSert on a G60.
•The Kearney (Neb.) Hub, MiraSert on a Goss 1472.
•The Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa., MiraSert on a 1472.
•The Bucks County Courier Times in Doylestown, Pa., MiraSert on an SLS-1000.
•The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., MiraSert on a 1472.
Miracom also introduced its MiraPanel large-screen display software, which enables papers to beam mailroom performance data to workers via
flat-screen displays. The Saint Cloud Times is the first paper to install the display software.
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S.C. publisher adds Orient tower
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Hometown News Inc. in Woodruff, S.C., is adding an Orient Super 4-Hi tower and X-Cel 2:2 jaw folder from Printers House
Americas LLC to its existing Super press.
HNI publishes eight weeklies in the Spartanburg/Greenville, S.C., area.
Donald Wilder, HNI's chief executive officer, said he purchased the tower to satisfy growing color demands.
HNI purchased the original Super press, configured as three mono units, a 3-color unit and standard folder, in 1999.
The Orient 4-Hi tower features fully motorized register with remote control from the press console, provision for auto register, solid stainless
steel plate and blanket cylinders, automatic grease lubrication, pressman-friendly controls and swing-down, lever-keyed ink fountains.
The tower will be in production in May, PHA said.
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Goss sells 2 presses to Aussie publisher
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Goss International Corp. said it sold two Uniliner presses to Fairfax Media Group in Australia. The two presses will be
installed at year-end. One machine will be located at FMG's suburban Brisbane plant with the other one placed in New Zealand.
The doublewide presses will print up to 128 pages tabloid in full color and will be configured as four four-high towers and two 2:5:5 jaw folders
with a 22.75-inch cutoff.
Each folder will feature inline stitching and one will have quarterfolding capability. Goss will install the presses with reelstands placed at 90
degrees to the press line, similar to Goss' FPS press design.
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Wash. publisher goes SCS
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Sound Publishing Inc., which prints more than 66 community and classifieds publications in the Pacific Northwest, went
live with classified pagination software from Software Consulting Services LLC.
SCS/ClassPag became the system of choice after SPI acquired the Little Nickle Shopper publications in Lynwood, Wash., which had been using the
software since 1996.
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LAT, Valassis expand preprint program
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The Los Angeles Times Media Group and Valassis extended their existing insert distribution program to include
Spanish-language publication Hoy Fin de Semana and the Los Angeles Newspaper Group's Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif.
Beginning Feb. 1, FDS will be distributed to 500,000 homes and residents will receive the paper along with Valassis' shopLocal/RedPlum preprint
package.
Delivery will shift from Thursday/Friday to Friday/Saturday.
The Daily Breeze agreement will enable residents in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and other coastal communities to receive the Valassis package.
The Times began delivering the preprint packages to LANG papers in 2006.
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| U.K. papers upgrade archive app
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U.K. newspaper publisher Express Newspapers is rolling out multimedia archiving software from dutchsoftware.com. The
papers will use Multimedia Content Archive in connection with Smart Connection Enterprise software from Woodwing.
The software will be used to archive all of EN's publications, including Daily Express, Daily Star, several regional editions and a range of magazine
titles.
"We are convinced the media content archive is a huge step forward in our archiving, retrieval and syndication processes," said Steve Draper, IT
director at the Express.
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| Media General forms multimedia team
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Media General said it formed a six-member multimedia team for its redesigned Washington, D.C., bureau.
"Our four senior multimedia reporters and a senior online editor bring a wide range of multimedia expertise and a depth of news experience as
we transform to a Web-first operation with strong newspaper enterprise reporting," said Marsha Mercer, Media General's Washington bureau chief, who
leads the team.
The bureau's interactive Web site, www.mgwashington.com, will be linked to more than 50 Media General Web sites.
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