INSERTED with this issue of PJ is your personal entry form for the 2011 Newspaper Awards.
It details the sponsors, categories and, most importantly, the criteria for the 20 awards that will be presented at the 15th annual gala awards dinner – the year’s biggest gathering of news industry executives – at the Hilton on London’s Park Lane on Tuesday May 24. Unlike other industry awards, there is no cost for entry because your awards team seeks to encourage the maximum number of entries from all sectors of the industry.
For more information and details on tickets, table bookings and discounted hotel accommodation for the event visit www.newspaperawards.co.uk. Or contact Helen Hargreaves at helen@newspaperawards.co.uk or by telephone on 01869 340788
Digital deal sealed
Stroma signs up to produce international titles on London’s first digital colour presses
AS exclusively reported by PJ last October, the deal has finally been done that will equip west London digital newspaper printer Stroma with a full colour inkjet press.
As PJ went to press Océ announced that the west London printer, the longterm partner in its Digital Newspaper Network (DNN), will produce colour copies of international newspaper editions for the first time. No official timescale has been given, but PJ believes the the colour press will be installed in March.
Stroma, which has been at the forefront of digital printing since its launch a decade ago, will be upgraded from a toner-based web-fed press to the Océ JetStream 1000. Océ says the press will provide a quality level comparable to offset, and enable Stroma to expand to longer runs of digitally produced newspapers as well as expand further into book publications.
Advances based on Océ JetStream technology inkjet presses in terms of speed and quality, plus huge flexibility, means that digital newspapers will suddenly become an even more acceptable product for the newspaper industry.
Océ says the JetStream 1000 system is capable of printing up to 1,000 36-page tabloid newspapers per hour or 9,000 copies per eight-hour shift. Each copy is potentially an individual product, printed digitally with no loss of speed or quality compared to more traditional printing methods.
Supplying digital printing services across London and the Home Counties, Stroma provides a fast, quality service. In newspapers, the company is recognised across the globe as a pioneer and market leader in digital production. It prints and distributes international newspaper titles from across the globe to readers in London. These include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Moscow Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Stroma managing director Steve Brown said: “In these testing times for newspapers, digital colour is a real expansion opportunity for the industry. This is something the publishers have been wanting for a long time, and will now be realised.
“With the JetStream 1000 production press, we have the solution for the future growth of Stroma. I know Océ extremely well and trust totally. This is a true partnership on a long but mutually beneficial journey.”
Océ pioneered the digital newspaper market a decade ago with its Digital Newspaper Network. More than 25 million newspaper copies have been produced globally through this network since 2001, making Océ a world market leader in digital newspaper production.
The introduction of the JetStream series of digital full colour inkjet presses extended Océ production capabilities into higher run lengths, unprecedented productivity and full colour quality on a par with traditional newspapers produced on offset presses. Now digital production speeds are beginning to be within the scope of those required for smaller newspapers.
For comments from Océ executives, see PJ online at www.newsmedia.org.uk.
An Océ JetStream like this machine printing in Spain is set to bring digital colour to international titles printed by Stroma in London, including The Australian (inset)
Local TV: ‘Task of building and maintaining audiences will be challenging’
LOCAL television has a commercially viable future, according to the final report on Local TV published last month. Investment banker Nicholas Shott was asked by the Government to investigate the viability of local TV and told Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt in his final report that “in the long term, local TV can be commercially viable, as and when IPTV (internet protocol television) gains sufficient market penetration”.
He said that in the short to medium term, no more than 10 or 12 local TV services would be sustainable via digital terrestrial television and only then if certain minimum conditions were met.
The cost of the 10 services based on a network of major conurbations is estimated at £25 million per annum, which could be covered by around £15 million from national advertising revenues, £5 million from the BBC’s commitment to buy locally generated news content for three years, and the rest made up from local advertising revenues.
Public service broadcasters could promote local TV services on screen red-button prompts or insertion of local programming into a national channel’s regional schedule, the report said. A single channel number common to all local TV services and in a prominent position on the EPG would be very important.
“The task of building and maintaining an audience should not be underestimated: although research points to consumer demand for local content, it is substantially for news or newstype programming, implying that maintaining audiences at viable levels for lengthy periods will be challenging, to say the least,” said Mr Shott.
“To help to meet those challenges local TV services will have to co-operate with one another to form a national ‘backbone’. The purpose of this backbone will be to provide programming to augment the schedules of the local TV services; to eliminate duplication of local TV services’ costs wherever possible, by sharing; to promote the generic concept of local TV services; and, crucially, to maximise national advertising revenues, either by means of an in-house sales team or, perhaps more desirably, in conjunction with a sales agent…”
The report, which was commissioned by Jeremy Hunt last June, said 10 to 12 conurbations should be chosen to host trial local TV services, providing at least two hours of high-quality local content per day. The full report can be seen by visiting the Newspaper Society website at newspapersoc.org.uk.
In early 2011, the DCMS says it will publish proposals setting out the steps it will take to support the emergence of commercially viable local TV in the UK within a strong, independent and vibrant local media industry.
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Longcroft appointed to head up News International operations
NEWS International has announced the appointment of Chris Longcroft, left, to the newly-created role of managing director, operations.
Chris will be responsible for Newsprinters, the three News International-owned and managed sites in Broxbourne, Knowsley and Eurocentral, as well as the contract print sites across the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe. He will also have responsibility for all direct production costs, including newsprint, ink and plates, business continuity, and the distribution network, including both the wholesale relationships and the Direct-to-Retail capabilities.
He will help capitalise on News International’s existing capabilities in printing and distribution and identify opportunities to leverage these for further third party business in the future.
Chris will report to News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and will become a member of the executive team.
The former finance director, operations, joined News International in February 2009. Said Rebekah: “I am very pleased that we have been able to promote internally to fill this role.
“Chris has a solid understanding of newspaper operations and has played a key role in implementing some major projects throughout manufacturing and distribution.”
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NEWSPAPER consultant Tom McGowran came to the rescue when this self-timer image of former newspaper industry pioneers and technical innovators ended up as a corrupt file in the camera of PJ editor Gary Cullum.
Tom, who usually attends the annual gathering of the former Newspaper Society Technical and Newstec committee members and guests, was in Egypt and unable to attend the event. But his software skills were put to good use when he returned.
The lunch is held each November at London’s RAF Club where former Newstec organising committee chairman, the late John Maxwell, was a member.
Pictured at this year’s gathering – the 10th annual lunch organised by former Westminster Press Bucks Free Press divisional managing director David Green – are, standing, from left: Gary Cullum, Pat Montague, Sandy Park, Paul Liggins, Martin Bourn, Peter Cross, Brian Mulholland, Geoff Edwards, who flew in from North America, David Owen, Peter Selby, George Wells, Tony Crabtree.
Seated, from left: Ted Crosbie, Graham Parrett, Norman Walker, David Green, Gerry Holbrook, Frank Ware and Frank Barlow.
Let’s make 2011 full of good news
THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: PJ’s Gary Cullum looks ahead to a year of good news in every sense
HAPPY New Year. Here’s wishing all PJ readers and advertisers, publishers printers, suppliers and manufacturers and PJ’s friends around the world a very happy 2011 with a little more business health and prosperity than the past 12 months has bestowed on the industry.
There are signs of recovery, small signs of increased revenues, of some stabilisation of newspaper sales and plenty of optimism and opportunity to roll forward into 2011.
As media guru Jim Chisholm asks on page 12: ‘Was 2010 the bottom of the trough?’ In an article for US publication News & Tech he says UK regulator Ofcom indicates that more people think that ‘local newspaper journalism’ has improved over the past two years than those who disagreed.
Jim says that one of the greatest advantages the digital world provides is localisation – and no other medium is better placed than newspapers to deliver on a local platform, either in terms of content or revenue generation. He says: “While the world may be globalising, we continue to live locationally based lives. And this is a major opportunity for newspapers that we must win.”
Staying with a global theme, on page 3 PJ reports on the global app sales market, predicted to be rocketing towards a value of $35 billion (£22.9 billion) by 2014. Research company IDC says a staggering 10.9 billion apps were downloaded in 2010, with the number set to rise to 76.9 billion annually by 2014.
And there is no end to the daily explosion of apps for the news publishing market – latest entrants being the Sunday Times, Rotherham Advertiser and Chorley & Leyland Guardian.
PJ wants to hear from you if you have launched a news industry related app – do please drop me a mail to gc@cullumpublishing.co.uk
Also, don’t forget to let PJ know about your environmental initiatives. This month the PJ Green Challenge spotlight falls on the Sheffield Telegraph which has been working closely with the local community in making an impact on local environmental issues. 2011 will see the fifth year of the paper’s Environmental Awards which editor David Todd describes as “the most successful community-based project we are involved in each year”.
He continues: “Not only have the awards been terrific for promoting environmental awareness in our area but the enormous popularity of the awards have done the Telegraph a lot of good within the community as a whole.”
This is good news for everyone and local newspapers across the UK have been fostering similar environmental causes, some of which I am sure will be worthy entrants in the 2011 Newspaper Awards – a printed entry form for which is inserted in this issue.
All categories and criteria for this year’s annual celebration of our industry’s achievements can also be found on the awards website at www.newspaperawards.co.uk
That reminds me – do bookmark PJ’s website at www.newsmedia .org.uk for the latest industry happenings and industry organisation contact points. The website will be building throughout the year into a valuable companion to your printed PJ.
I look forward to 2011 being a year of good news in every sense for our industry.
2 NEWS January 2011
Publishers worldwide have been investing in tablet publishing solutions. The number of publications using Woodwing’s Digital Magazine Tools, above and right, have recently passed the 100 mark
Below, the Rotherham Advertiser’s news app delivers all the latest in local sport, business and district news straight to an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
Newspapers feed growing apps hunger
Titles invest in downloadable editions as readers’ desire for apps is primed for global explosion
THE global market for apps is set to rocket to $35 billion (£22.2 billion) a year by 2014 according to a new study from IDC Research.
The company says a staggering 10.9 billion apps for devices including smartphones and tablets such as the Apple iPad were downloaded in 2010 alone, with the number rising to 76.9 billion annually during 2014. That represents a growth rate of some 60 per cent per year.
IDC vice-president of mobile and wireless research Scott Ellison said: “Mobile app developers will ‘appify’ just about every interaction you can think of in your physical and digital worlds. The extension of mobile apps to every aspect of our personal and business lives will be one of the hallmarks of the new decade with enormous opportunities for virtually every business sector.”
This huge growth is seen as good news for the app marketplaces including Apple’s App Store, which charges 30 per cent of the sale price of every download. Google and and Microsoft also charge a commission, though lower, for their app platforms.
At present analysts estimate Apple’s app store contributes just one per cent of the company’s gross profit – approximately £198 million. But the rapid growth combined with the firms new iAds platform, which allows it to charge for advertisements within advertisements, is set to drive this much higher.
News-related services
Apple has also shown its belief that apps will drive future sales by allowing them to be installed for the first time on its new generation of laptops as well as its handheld devices.
Although the figures quoted above are for the global app market, there is no shortage of apps appearing daily for news-related services.
Latest news apps include those from the Sunday Times, the Rotherham Advertiser, published by the Garnett Dickinson Group, and the Chorley and Leyland Guardian.
The Rotherham Advertiser app runs on the Apple iPhone and iPad. It comprises regular RSS feeds in major categories of the newspaper from the paper’s website, with each story being geo-tagged and plotted on Google maps.
Priced at £1.79, the app gives access to four electronic editions of the Rotherham Advertiser and unlimited access to free titles the Rotherham Record and the Dearne Valley Weekender. Users can re-subscribe to continue receiving electronic versions of the paid-for Advertiser.
Downloaded from the App Store, it also offers full search and archive facilities with access to article sharing with social network sites.
The news app runs alongside a births, marriages and deaths app launched by the publisher last June, allowing users to upload messages, tributes and pictures. This generates revenue by an automatic add-on charge when the ad is placed, and also links with social networking sites.
The Chorley and Leyland Guardian app for news and sport can be downloaded free to an iPhone and iPod Touch.
It has worked with a local firm, Concept 4, to create the app which has icons for news and sport, although it is not currently available in the Apple store.
Latest news-related apps to hit the market also include the Sunday Times which went live on iPad in December, using Woodwing’s digital magazine tools.
The Sunday Times iPad edition offers all 12 sections and the full content of the printed newspaper, enriched with videos, images, interactive graphics and tables and shopping options. with different layouts for landscape and portrait mode.
A key feature is that readers can download the newspaper section by section via a virtual news stand display. Users can start reading almost instantly while the download continues in the background. Each section has its own individual cover, table of contents and page viewer.
Sunday Times editor John Witherow said: “This is the first time a multi-section newspaper has put everything onto an app, and lots of video and graphics bring the Sunday Times to life. We are proud to deliver a really beautiful reading experience for the iPad.”
Navigation features like the headline scanner on the cover pages of news sections and the map-based access to worldwide news stories have been implemented.
The iPad editions are complimentary with the digital subscription of £2 per week, which includes access to The Times iPad edition and websites (thetimes.co.uk. It is also complimentary with a seven-day newspaper subscription. In addition, readers can purchase individual editions from within the app for £1.79.
IN BRIEF
MEN covers Corrie’s street carnage
FICTIONAL local paper The Weatherfield Gazette has been hitting the streets of Manchester to mark the 50th anniversary of television soap Coronation Street.
A 32-page souvenir supplement to the Manchester Evening News was published with the support of ITV. The Gazette carried interviews with cast members, behind-the-scenes insights and a picture gallery of all 51 barmaids who have so far pulled pints in The Rovers Return plus a special crossword and the ultimate Coronation Street quiz.
MEN Media managing editor, Eamonn O’Neal said: “We’re delighted to have worked closely with ITV to bring the Weatherfield Gazette to life. Printing the local paper of UK television’s oldest and best-known soap is a real privilege and we’re honoured to be part of this iconic show’s 50th anniversary celebrations.”
BBC plans held in check after review
THE BBC should not launch new services which are “any more local” in the current market, according to the recentlypublished BBC Trust review into the broadcaster’s strategy.
The Newspaper Society response to the strategy review last year suggested practical ways of ensuring that clear boundaries were set on BBC’s local activities and budgets, which could be overseen by the BBC Executive and enforced by the BBC Trust. The Trust suggests some general improvements to the BBC’s engagement with commercial media on its future plans.
The final report reiterates that “in the current market, the BBC should not launch new services that are any more local than its current offerings, particularly now that it is committed to offer support to any future commercial providers of local television news”.
Smiths footprint grows
WHOLESALER Smiths News plc has secured additional distribution business with Northcliffe in Leicester, Lincoln, Tamworth, Leek and Uttoxeter and in Swindon with Newsquest. Both contracts are expected to generate around £7m of additional annual revenue.
January 2011 NEWS 3
IN BRIEF
Shropshire paper leads tributes to local actor
THE Shropshire Star has been leading the global tributes for actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died earlier this month, aged 64.
The respectful relationship the newspaper fostered with Shropshire resident Pete Postlethwaite was something he valued. He welcomed its reports of his involvement in community and arts projects and return it respected his desire for privacy.
One of the Star’s reports led directly to the actor’s leading role in the environmental documovie, The Age of Stupid.
The paper had carried a front page story when Pete Postlethwaite installed a wind turbine and carried out other environmentally-responsible adaptations to his home.
The story was read by film director Franny Armstrong, who asked the actor to appear in The Age of Stupid.
Franny said: “I Googled Pete to see whether he might have an interest in the environment and the first story I read was from the Shropshire Star. I thought ‘great, I might be onto something here’.”
Mr Postlethwaite, interviewed when the film was released in 2009, said: “I did speak to the local newspaper about what I’d done. I told them that we should all try to be more environmentally responsible.”
WAN-IFRA Dubai date
FROM iPads to the ‘talking newspaper’, the 6th Middle East Conference of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), will bring the latest gadgets – and successful cross-platform advertising strategies – to Dubai on February 8 and 9.
The conference, which takes the theme Make Money Now! takes place at the JW Marriott Hotel in Dubai.
Full conference details can be found at http://www.wanifra. org/middleeast
Sunday Herald to relaunch in magazine format
THE publisher of the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald is to relaunch the newspaper as a weekly news magazine.
The paper says the 92-page magazine will “offer readers a distinctive package unlike anything else being produced in Scotland”, adding: “We believe it’s better to be different than safe.”
The Newsquest publication believes it has found the best format to give that award-winning journalism a platform. “We hope that when readers open the new Sunday Herald they will agree agree,” the publisher said in a new year message to customers.
The new Sunday Herald will be published as a one-section stitched news magazine printed on top-quality, enhanced paper which the title believes will better project the quality of its journalism and the design and photographic skills which last year won it plaudit of Europe’s best weekly newspaper.
EFI launches advanced inkjet RIP solution
EFI has launched the EFI Fiery XF 4.5 advanced RIP solution for inkjet production printing as well as EFI Colorproof XF 4.5 for proofing.
New features aim to increase workflow productivity and achieve higher quality and accurate colour materials printed on a variety of inkjet printers across many production facilities. The digital printing innovation company headquartered in California claims that the EFI XF 4.5 offers both faster RIP performance and features to cut time and errors in the printing process.
“The new release gives our customers the tools they need to be more profitable,” said Stefan Spiegel, general manager of EFI’s inkjet applications group in Ratingen, Germany.
“It extends RIP functionality to give customers complete control of colour throughout their supply chain. Colour accuracy is optimal and additional functionality not only improves production productivity but allows printers to offer dedicated cutting and finishing options.”
All users of previous versions can purchase an upgrade to EFI XF 4.5.
Mortons Print expands into personalised digital print
MORTONS Print, the contract printing and mailing division of printer and publishing house Mortons of Horncastle, has invested in a complete digital solution from Fujifilm, comprising a Xerox DocuColorTM 7002 and a range of Duplo finishing equipment to enhance its service offering.
Mortons Print managing director Ian Fisher said: “We are quite new to digital technology because our core business is in newspapers, but we wanted to research a device that would allow us to produce previously outsourced work in-house.
“Now, with the DocuColorTM 7002 in conjunction with the various Duplo devices, we can offer our clients a broader and more specialised service for their marketing collateral, especially as we can now offer personalised variable data work and a wide variety of finishing options.”
The five finishing devices installed at Morton’s are a DB280 compact perfect binder, a DBM120 hand-fed booklet maker, DC645 slitter, cutter, creaser, IDEAL 5221 guillotine and a Renz Wiro binder.
The investment in the DocuColorTM digital press and Duplo finishing equipment is part of Mortons’ plan to become a full print service provider that can offer any form of printed product on any substrate.
“The installations have given a whole new lease of life to what we can and can’t do at Mortons,” said Ian.
“This investment has strengthened our company by increasing our service offering and we have formed an even stronger relationship with Fujifilm thanks to this purchase.
“We have seen immediate interest in our new services and we haven’t had to go knocking on people’s doors for the business – the work has come to us. The impact of these installations has already completely exceeded our expectations and we can’t wait to see what else we can achieve with our new digital capability.”
Pictured at the Xerox Duplo installation are: Tony Steels, production operative; Alan Wilkinson, prepress technician; Dean Wilkinson, production manager; and Mark Armstrong, technical support.
DTI joins Newspaper Awards
WHY not start the new decade with a gleaming trophy celebrating a winning 2011 Newspaper Awards entry?
Newspaper printers and publishers have until March 18 to complete entries for this year’s awards which will be announced on May 24 at the London Hilton.
Newspaper Awards director Gary Cullum said: “It may have been one of the most challenging years the industry has had to face but it was also a year when the power and influence of the media came to the fore.
“The 2011 Newspaper Awards will give the industry the chance to celebrate all that is good in the industry and provides a springboard to a highly successful new decade.”
Digital Technology International has returned as a Newspaper Awards sponsor, having taken over the sponsorship of the Best Use of New Media category.
This year the Newspaper Awards feature 20 categories designed to showcase the best in both printed and digital media. Several categories have been completely overhauled including the Grand Prix and environmental awards, and 2011 also celebrates the increasing importance of the app with the inaugural Newspaper App of the Year.
The full list of categories can be seen on the PJ back page and an entry form is inserted with this month’s issue. For extra entry forms, contact Helen Hargreaves on +44 (0) 1869 340788 or helen@newspaperawards.co.uk. A PDF of the 2011 entry form is also available from www.newspaperawards.co.uk.
As announced last month, despite rising costs, table prices for The 2011 Newspaper Awards have been frozen for 2011. The cost for a table of 10 remains at 2010 prices - £1,900 (ex VAT). Visit the website for a booking form.
Due to heavy demand on hotel rooms in London at the time of the Awards, for the first time, the website also contains a hotel room rate form which features competitive rates for a wide range of hotels close to the Hilton. The form is to be found on the table booking page or contact Helen Hargreaves.
4 NEWS January 2011
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Reunion call for Harlow students
THE call has gone out to students from Harlow College, inviting them to get together to mark the 40 years since they shared a classroom.
The class of 71/72 from the NCTJ pre-entry journalism course are reuniting on October 1 at a venue in the Harlow area – probably The Hare watering hole, which was frequented by Harlow students at the time.
Staff and students from 1971/72 are all welcome, said Simon Bucks from Sky News who is helping to organise the event along with Eastern Daily Press sub editor Andy McLardy who said: “We have both stayed in touch with a few old colleagues and are now hoping to trace others who would be interested in meeting up on a Saturday lunchtime at one of our old drinking haunts.”
Any alumni wishing to get in touch should email harlow7172@gmail.com
Top marks for six of the best courses
THE six top performing NCTJ-accredited courses during 2009/10 were presented with awards following a gala dinner at the Journalism Skills Conference held at Cardiff Castle.
NCTJ chief executive Joanne Butcher commended all the accredited course providers, saying that “they should be congratulated on achieving the high standards the industry looks for”.
She added: “It is no mean feat to achieve accreditation and to make the public commitment to providing all the NCTJ requires. We know how demanding and exacting that standard is and the public scrutiny it involves.”
Top of the postgraduate results table was the MA in newspaper journalism at Nottingham Trent University, with 63 per cent achieving the gold standard. The university also topped the undergraduate table with 56 per cent of students meeting the industry standard.
Best performing fast-track course was News Associates London-based journalism course with 71 per cent of students achieving gold standard. News Associates was also the best performing course overall.
Darlington College topped the table for fast-track courses at FE colleges and the Sheffield college, Norton College, was best accredited academic year FE course. Harlow College scooped the top performing NCTJ magazine course prize.
Hens are hot news for Archant
HENS are hot, according to Archant South West which is launching Your Chickens magazine for back garden chicken keepers.
The new title is aimed at the estimated 500,000 people who now keep chickens in their back gardens.
The first issue was due to go on sale from January 13 throughout the UK.
Publisher Anna Atkinson said: “Hens are ‘hot’, and we believe Your Chickens will be a big hit.
“More and more families are buying birds. It seems hard economic times are partly driving the trend – people realise they can save money on eggs by having their own hens.
“Hens are also part of the ‘good life’, along with growing your own veg. They are also fun and easy to keep as pets, so ideal for the family with young children.”
Poultry experts will be sharing their expertise with readers every month in the magazine that will include features and articles, tips and advice, a club for children, competitions, news, quirky stories and products.
Your Chickens will have its own website and a strong presence on Facebook and Twitter.
There will be extensive coverage on chicken breeds, so readers can choose the best birds for them, guidance on buying the right hen house, as well as advice on feeding, security, health and welfare, and many other issues.
Each month will feature some of the most beautiful chicken breeds, with details of where to go to see them. Celebrities who keep chickens will be featured too, with reporter Chicken Scoop tracking them down for an interview.
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January 2011 NEWS 5
GREEN CHALLENGE
Are your newspapers reaching out to their audiences to encourage readers to undertake green projects designed to protect the environment?
Are you a publisher or printer already taking steps to cut your carbon footprint?
Tell us about the green schemes that you are working on with your community and let PJ showcase your environmental initiatives and projects to the rest of the industry.
Email your details to us at mark@cullumpublishing.co.uk and let’s make a difference.
PJ’s Green Challenge is sponsored by:
Telegraph applauds environmental heroes
Editor David Todd: ‘There have been outstanding stories of people and organisations who genuinely want to do all they can to protect the environment’
ONE of the main drives behind PJ’s Green Challenge is to find all the great environmental initiatives newspapers are involved in around the country. The idea is not just to promote the newspapers’ own good work but to encourage other publishers to follow suit when they see just what can be achieved by our industry to help protect our environment.
Now in its fourth successful year, the Sheffield Telegraph’s Environment Awards provide an excellent example of how a regional newspaper can make a huge difference in helping its community to really get involved in local environmental issues.
Sheffield Telegraph editor David Todd told PJ: “I decided to launch the awards in 2007 because we became aware of the growing number of environmental initiatives in the Sheffield area. Our aim was to promote those already involved in environmental initiatives and to encourage more people and organisations to initiate their own projects.
“We’ve been growing the number of entries for the awards year-on-year and since we launched them we have received over 200 entries across nine categories. Entries come from a wide variety of sources with responses from local schools, businesses, organisations and individuals.
“The last four years have produced some outstanding stories of people and organisations who genuinely want to do all they can to protect the environment we live in.”
He continued: “The awards are something we look forward to every October. The really great thing is that many of the people and businesses we feature are doing great work, very quietly, with no real aim to be recognised for it.
“Our awards honour outstanding efforts and achievements, good building and design, sustainability, innovations and improvements. Our aim is to help raise awareness in the local community for better environmental performance by business and industry.”
Overall winner of the 2010 Environment Awards was Mike Wild who won the award in recognition of a lifetime devoted to protecting the environment. He was one of the founding members of the organisation which became the Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham 25 years ago and has been instrumental in working on the City’s Five Weirs walk. Other winners of the Environment Awards included Dobcroft Infant School, JF Finnegan and Jefferson Sheard Architects, South Yorkshire Energy Centre and Lauren Dixon.
“I think this is the most successful community-based project we are involved in each year because it recognises people who in the main do not seek recognition,” added David Todd. “Not only have the awards been terrific for promoting environmental awareness in our area but the enormous popularity of the awards have done the Telegraph a lot of good within the community as a whole.
“A key ingredient to the success of the awards is the amount of local companies involved with the awards through sponsorship. Since the inception of the awards the main sponsor has been energy company e.on, with local businesses backing the nine individual categories.”
The Sheffield Telegraph promotes the awards heavily and runs a special 12-page supplement and an electronic magazine. The newspaper also holds an awards evening, hosted by BBC North weatherman and climate correspondent Paul Hudson, with every winner receiving a trophy.
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PROFILE
Newspaper delivery methods will change
Name Roy Cowley
Job title Newspaper Sales Manager for UK and Ireland
Company Agfa Graphics UK
How long have you worked for your present company?
Eight years as Agfa and previously six years with Autologic; acquired by Agfa in 2001
Brief description of your company’s newspaper offering:
Offset litho printing plates - Agfa N91V is the accepted standard visible light printing plate in the UK newspaper market. Workflow - Agfa :Arkitex software offers solutions for all aspects of newspaper pre-press workflow. Platesetters – Agfa’s Newspaper portfolio is completed by the Polaris and Advantage range of platesetters
Which printed newspaper(s) do you read?
The Independent or Daily Telegraph. The Evening Standard when travelling in London and a subscription to The Week news magazine
How many printed newspapers a week do you buy?
Two or three
Do you read online news sources? If so, which ones?
BBC for news, weather and travel, but for market news, MediaGuardian and the Guardian Media Talk podcast. Online news services include PrintWeek.com, and WAN IFRA Executive News Service
What is your view of online newspapers – pros and cons?
Pros: Online newspapers are a quick and convenient way of getting news updates, sports results and football fixtures. Cons: I don’t like to read indepth articles on a computer screen – there’s nothing to match the smell and feel of the real thing and with modern colour newspaper printing, equal to the visual impact of the online versions
What is the future of newspapers over the next five years?
Publishers will continue to gather news and sell advertisements – it’s the way they are delivered that will change. The delivery of content to electronic tablets and mobile phones will increase. Printed newspapers delivery will continue but printed in fewer, larger super sites
Favourite newspaper ‘scoop’ or headline:
‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’, Kelvin MacKenzie, New York Post (1982)
Favourite piece of newspaper ‘kit’:
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What is your favourite form of communication:
Talking, face to face
Favourite journalist and why:
Peter Preston (Guardian editor, 1975 to 1995) and Andrew Knight (editor of The Economist, 1974 to 1986) – both real gentlemen who had the courage and foresight to embrace computers in the production of newspapers in the early 1980s
Printing Charity helps with winter bills
THE Printing Charity has once again made a one-off, cold weather payment of £50 to the almost 300 people it supports with regular financial assistance. The December payment was to help grantees who are on low incomes to pay higher than expected bills during this winter’s extremely cold weather.
The Printing Charity chief executive Stephen Gilbert said: “We’re here to help people who are experiencing hardship maintain their independence and dignity.
“Our board of trustees wanted to offer this additional help at a time when it’s most needed. People can use the money to pay any bills, from buying food to heating their homes.”
The charity was set up in 1827 and provides financial support to former employees in the printing, publishing, graphic arts and allied trades and their families. It made a similar payment to help with winter bills last year.
“We know from last year that people appreciated the cold weather payment and this year’s winter definitely calls for that extra financial support again,” said Stephen.
Newsquest opts for cloud solution
‘Hosted services are the way forward for businesses’
NEWSQUEST (London) has become the latest UK publisher to join the Wave2 AdPortal community, following a successful pilot exercise.
Publicly being promoted as AdMaker across the company’s London region, this will be Newsquest’s first self-service display ad solution focused towards its trade customers.
Newsquest (London) is one of Wave2’s first customers to utilise a cloud based software solution. This interpretation of Wave2’s AdPortal software is directed at small businesses that do not want the expense of using an ad agency to create a promotional campaign. Instead, the web-based solution guides a customer through the ad creation process, offering template based solutions. The AdPortal software provides the platform for advertisers to build, book and manage their own advertisements and campaigns. The publishers own online video guide to using Ad Maker follows the process for creating both on-the-page and online ads.
Beginning with maps detailing the areas that an ad might cover; the customer then selects a business type and size of ad; existing templates can then be used to create an ad, or the customer can upload existing artwork; using the template, copy can be changed online, and proofs viewed and approved; dates for ad insertion are selected; and payment is made, with payment methods available including PayPal, Sage Pay, WorldPay, and credit card.
Wave2 sales director Andrew Haggerty said: “Newsquest’s US owners, Gannett, had worked with our Wave2 products in America and were more than happy to make recommendations to other group companies.
“Following a trial, the company has now signed a 12 month contract to buy Wave2’s services via our cloud based server offering. We wish them every success with the London region Ad Maker project and hope to see further adoption throughout the group.”
Wave2 managing director Chris Hodges said: “Hosted services are the way forward for a significant number of businesses in our target markets. Such a solution means all of the benefits of the Wave2 software product are available to our customers from day one for the payment of a fixed monthly fee, rather than a significant up-front capital expenditure.
“These initial savings are then multiplied by the fact that the customer doesn’t need to purchase additional computer hardware to run the system, or employ IT specialists to manage and run that equipment.”
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Editors change rules on corrections
A CHANGE to the rules covering publication of corrections is being introduced into the Editors’ Code of Practice, to which the British press subscribes voluntarily.
From January 1, corrections involving the Press Complaints Commission – which oversees press self regulation in the UK – will be agreed with the PCC in advance, under new rules agreed by the Editors’ Code Committee, which reviews the Code.
Clause 1ii, which covers accuracy, will be changed to say (amendment in italics): 1ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and – where appropriate – an apology published. In cases involving the Commission, prominence should be agreed with the PCC in advance.
The change was agreed by the Code Committee following consultation with the industry and the PCC. Code Committee secretary Ian Beales said: “This amendment is designed to help kill the myth that newspapers and magazines routinely bury corrections.” Editors change rules on corrections
N BRIEF
Publishers partner film awards
NEWSQUEST and the Birmingham Mail are backing the Richard Attenborough Film Awards which invite regional newspaper film critics and cinemagoers to vote for their top films and movie stars.
Newsquest is sponsoring the Film Star of the Year award while Trinity Mirror’s Mail is associated with the Family Blockbuster category.
Both categories are in the public section of the awards and the publishers have been encouraging their readers to cast their vote on the awards website. The awards also feature categories voted for exclusively by regional media.
Cable network for local exclusive
AN exclusive Richmond and Twickenham Times interview with Vince Cable ahead of the Commons vote on university tuition fees made national headlines.
The Business Secretary told Times chief reporter Paul Teed that he would vote in favour of a tuition fee rise. The story was uploaded to the newspaper’s website later that day and fed through the paper’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Within hours, the story had been picked up by a host of national media outlets including Sky, BBC, Daily Mail, The Telegraph and Guardian.
Pressgang signs up premier players
TWO former premier league football stars were chief guests at the Pressgang’s Christmas lunch in London which raised an amazing £2,740 for charity.
Former Arsenal player Ray Parlour and ex Chelsea striker Kerry Dixon were the guest speakers and helped with the fundraising which will benefit chosen charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
The December event was held at London’s Little Ship Club and attended by 108 executives from newspaper publishers, printers and the supply industry who braved the snowy conditions.
Fooball legends Kerry Dixon (left) and Ray Parlour with Pressgang chairman Brett Lawrence (second left) and secretary Colin Colverd (right)
Council papers under scrutiny
Lynne Anderson: ‘Local papers are the only voices which can hold local authorities to account. Certainly council newspapers are not capable of doing that themselves’
THE Newspaper Society has been giving evidence to a Parliamentary select committee inquiry into Government proposals to curb council newspapers.
Simon Edgley of Trinity Mirror Southern and Lynne Anderson of the NS represented the local media industry at the hearing which was reported on BBC Radio 4’s Today in Parliament, while councils were represented by the LGA, London Councils and NALC.
The Communities and Local Government Committee, chaired by former Sheffield Council leader Clive Betts MP, held the one-day hearing into proposed changes to the Local Authority Publicity Code. Local Government Minister Grant Shapps defended the government’s proposed changes to the code, which are due to come into force early next year.
Mr Shapps described council newspapers as nothing more than “propaganda on the rates”. But senior councillors Richard Kemp (Liverpool) and mayor of Hackney Jules Pipe said they had to publish them because local newspapers gave less coverage to council meetings.
Richard Kemp, vice chairman of the LGA, said it was hypocritical of the Government to interfere in local government business while pushing the Localism agenda. He said local papers needed to “up their game” and added: “We need to consider how we use them… If they were more positive, we’d perhaps be more positive to them.”
Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Gilbert pointed to the vibrant local papers in his West Country constituency which regularly covered local council business. He also said he could not find one critical story about the borough in his copy of the Hackney Today council newspaper. Hackney mayor Jules Pipe said it did not pretend to be anything other than a council publication.
Simon Edgley from Trinity Mirror Southern said local authorities were competing with independent newspapers for advertising space without having to run a business on a commercial basis. “They are running these publications on a completely different model than commercial organisations are able to … they are competing on a basis that is totally unfair,” he said.
One of his newspapers, Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle, had to compete with the fortnightly council newspaper H&F News, which claims to take £400,000 a year in advertising out of the local market.
Lynne Anderson said that, according to the Audit Commission, 150 council publications took private advertising. “You don’t need your local council competing with you for scarce advertising revenues … those are the very ad revenues which keep journalists in their jobs. Councils should not be in the business of competing.”
She said 10,000 journalists worked in local newspapers and still covered councils as their bread and butter but pointed to the introduction of Cabinet style council meetings under the Local Government Act 2000 which had meant a lot of decisions were taken behind closed doors, making it unproductive to have a reporter sitting in council meetings all day.
She said the way council meetings were covered had changed, readers’ tastes and attitudes had changed, but that local papers were still covering their local councils and, “they’re the only voices which can hold local authorities to account. Certainly council newspapers are not capable of doing that themselves”.
The minister Grant Shapps gave the example of Greenwich Time, a council newspaper which cost taxpayers more than £500,000 a year. “I think most residents would be pretty appalled to hear than half a million pounds is going to fund the local town hall Pravda.” He said local authorities now spent £430 million a year pumping themselves up in the eyes of residents. “We simply can’t carry on having propaganda published on the rates.”
Defending proposals to reduce publication to four times a year, Mr Shapps said it was a framework to stop local newspapers being snuffed out by state-sponsored so-called journalism.
The Government’s consultation on the new code closed in November. The CLG committee’s report is not expected until this month (January).
Separately, the Croydon Advertiser has reported that Croydon Council’s monthly £250,000-a-year Your Croydon magazine was being scaled down. It will have fewer pages and be published four to six times a year in a bid to reduce costs by at least £100,000.
8 NEWS January 2011
A huge increase in the cost of recovered paper, due to its demand overseas in countries like China, is part of the reason for the current hike in newsprint prices
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Counting up the cost of consumables
Rising prices are going to have an increasing impact on the production process. Caryl Holland reports on the latest trends
AS 2011 gets under way, one of the most worrying aspects for newspaper publishers and printers is the rising cost of consumables. These increases are never good news, especially not now when the industry is beginning to show signs of recovery.
However, from the consumable manufacturers’ point of view, prices have been too low for too long and they can no longer be sustained due to the rising cost of raw materials.
Indeed, for the ink, and plate and pressroom chemical suppliers, 2010 was a challenging year. Many key speciality chemical producers began the year with depleted inventories and reduced capacity since they had drastically cut back supply when demand dried up in 2008 due to the recession. Added to which, after living through a number of years of low margins and then making the difficult decision to shut facilities, they had found that with a leaner operation and with supply matching much closer to demand, it was possible to improve margins by increasing prices.
It was therefore not surprising that last October both Sun Chemical and Flint announced price increases for its coldset inks to come into effect from January 1 this year. Specific reasons given included the fact that rosin resin had gone up by 75 per cent since the beginning of the year and by 300 per cent over the previous 12 months, while the price of pigments had risen by an average of four per cent and a further rise of five per cent was expected in 2011.
Nor are inks the only consumables to be affected. Last month, Flint warned that “the global commodity markets are in disarray, and certainly as far as raw materials for the production of printing consumables like fount solutions, washes and blankets are concerned, the outlook is volatile at best”.
It continued: “In recent months, many key base materials have increased in price, some by as much as 25 per cent, and although not all have seen such dramatic increases, the outlook for the next six months or so is that all these critical raw materials will see upward pressure.”
Said Fredrik Broman, vice-president of product management transfer media for the Flint Group Print Media Europe: “In terms of our transfer media, tensioned blankets, metal backed blankets and sleeves, the past three years have seen steady growth in our material costs.
“Our forecasts predict this trend to continue and accelerate in 2011 due to demand for rubber polymers, solvents, fabrics and nickel all increasing especially in Asia.”
In fact, the only bright note last year was that aluminium prices dropped, alleviating the pressure on the plate manufacturers. However, the benefit was wiped out by adverse exchange rates, plus higher power, labour and transport costs, so do not be surprised if price increases are proposed this year.
It does need to be remembered though that plate processing and pressroom chemicals, and even plates, inks and blankets for that matter, represent a relatively small proportion of the total cost of producing a newspaper. What has an even greater cost impact is if the product is substandard and, as a result, production has to be stopped.
It is a somewhat different matter when it comes to newsprint since it can represent a significant percentage of a company’s costs.
Whatever happens, there is no getting away from the fact that consumable costs are going to rise this year, requiring a rethink of the print production process particularly in terms of reducing consumable consumption.
A classic case is ink optimisation software, especially as coldset black ink prices have not increased as much as colour, at least not so far. Ink savings can vary depending on the image content, and the number and amount of colour used and its intensity. They can also vary according to the software package – there are more than 20 offerings on the market with significant differences in prices – but on average the savings can be around 15 per cent.
When it comes to plate processing chemicals, the obvious solution would be to eliminate them at least in part by changing over to processorless/chem-free plates. However, be careful, since the savings calculations are complex and should not just cover the cost of the plate versus the decrease in chemicals. They should also take into account the run length of the plate, as well as the size of the developer tank, top-up rate and bath life of whatever fluid is involved. In fact, you might find that one of the latest conventional plates is more economical.
However, it is with reducing newsprint waste where the most savings can occur. This can be achieved through a number of ways ranging from increased staff awareness, perhaps even motivated by bonus schemes, or automated reel handling through to improved waste collection, especially as the rising cost of newsprint can make the roi on the equipment investment that much shorter.
Also, when did you last check out the latest press ancillaries? For instance, we have recently seen the introduction of a number of soft proof viewers as an extension to the press console. These allow a final check before the main print run commences and good quality copy to be printed sooner, thus cutting errors and waste. The same is true with the on-press plate verification systems which have been launched.
Or what about upgrading your press control systems? The latest register systems can identify smaller marks at faster speeds making detection of problems faster, thus minimising waste during start-up and when running, while the automatic in-line colour measuring and density control systems which are based on the print image using spectrophotometers or exposing the web to spectral narrow band light of different wavelengths can make a significant difference in waste quantities. For instance, QI’s IDS colour control system installed on a six-tower four-high satellite manroland Colorman XXL is giving some 15 per cent waste savings at Freie Presse in Chemnitz.
Even if the savings are only a few copies per job, the total over a year can be substantial, making a significant difference to what is still the largest revenue earning part of any newspaper publisher’s business, the printed newspaper. PJ
AS PJ went to press, the annual newsprint negotiations had not been finalised and there are all sorts of rumours circulating including requested price increases ranging from 15 to 25 per cent, as well as a lack of enthusiasm by the mills to commit to a 12 month contract.
In the circumstances, one cannot blame them considering how they were caught out this year by having to bear the significant increases in the cost of energy, as well as the rise in the price of recovered paper.
It was not that long ago when recovered paper cost around £25 per tonne, whereas now it can be between £85 and £100 per tonne for mixed newspapers and magazines, while recovered newspapers have gone up to between £95 and £115, and white newsprint to £170-£190 a tonne. This does mean though that newspaper printers have seen a similar increase in what they receive for their waste paper, although for the newsprint mills the impact is even worse in that they only achieve an average yield of 82 per cent from the waste paper used.
One of the main reasons for the increase in the cost of recovered paper is the demand from overseas, especially China, something which is not expected to change this year nor for some years to come.
However, again, things need to be put into context. Newsprint manufacturers say that their objective this time round is at least to replicate 2009’s prices. This, they reckon, would be the bare minimum to enable them to post decent profits given the current lack of any prospect for rapid and significant cuts in pulp and recovered fibre costs: the average price in Europe in September 2009 was between £390 and £430 per tonne for 45 gsm standard newsprint and between £405 and £442 for 52.5 gsm standard newsprint, while in September 2010 it was £365/£400 and £375/£410 respectively.
Chronic over capacity was one of the main reasons for the price drop last year but since then newsprint consumption has slightly increased and the mills are beginning to make moves to get their house in order. For instance, last year Stora Enso permanently closed two newsprint machines at its Varkaus mill in Finland reducing capacity by 290,000 tonnes, as well as a newsprint machine at its Maxan mill in Germany which had a 195,000 tonne capacity. Indeed, towards the end of last year, short-term availability of additional volumes of newsprint were hard to come by in Germany.
The mills put this down to good export opportunities which were being fully exploited though others thought it was a deliberate tactics by the mills to increase prices. Either way, the same thing could happen in other parts of Europe especially if the rumoured mergers materialise.
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Newspapers top video streaming
ACCORDING to a new study by Brightcove and TubeMogul, newspapers have beaten broadcasters for the most minutes of streamed video to users in the third quarter of 2010.
The report shows how the volume of video content produced by newspapers for the web has more than doubled (51 per cent growth) in the past quarter – focusing on a broad range of topics from major news events to niche topics. Web video for the newspaper industry grew about 110 per cent compared to quarter three of 2009.
Awards entries invited
THE Society of Editors has launched the call for entries for The Press Awards.
There will be 25 categories of awards including the re-introduction of the Front Page of the Year.
Closing date for entries is Monday January 24.
IN BRIEF
Champion launches recruitment portal
CHAMPION Media Group has launched an online recruitment portal for jobseekers and recruiters in Sefton and West Lancashire.
Ads and editorial features directing readers to the Jobs Champion portal are running in the independent publisher’s six free weekly titles which have a combined circulation of 132,162 (Jan-June 2010 ABC).
And an email has been sent to 400 recruiters in the area to alert them to the launch.
The campaign will also feature on Facebook, Twitter and the publisher’s website which is set for makeover. A jobs fair is also planned for this year.
Jobs Champion has a CV matching service which matches keywords in uploaded CVs with recruiters’ requirements, and an intuitive search engine.
Ad campaign success
A MULTIMEDIA Honda campaign run through Featurelink has been named the best regional press ad of the year by Campaign magazine.
The Wieden & Kennedy campaign for the Honda Insight hybrid car, which featured in 150 local media titles, was first out of 10 top regional press ads.
The campaign was the subject of a Newspaper Society case study which found that key consumer brand values rose after the ads ran. Honda partnered with volunteering charity Do-it and newspapers launched Honda-branded microsites enabling readers to search for volunteering opportunities in their area.
ENVIRONMENT MATTERS
Print industry urged to develop environmental standards
THE International Standards Organisation (ISO) technical committee 130 has recently launched a new working group (WG11) to develop a set of standards to cover the environmental impact of print.
The group’s remit is closely aligned with those of the Verdigris Project, the not-for-profit print environmental research initiative, run by Digital Dots.
WG11 is currently working on ISO draft 16759, the requirements for measuring the carbon footprint of printed products, and is in the process of producing the first draft which is available for review, with a deadline for comments of the February 4. Verdigris is encouraging print industry participants with an interest in the environmental impact of print to join WG11 through their national bodies to take an active role in developing the standard.
Commenting on the new working group, Verdigris founder, Laurel Brunner, said: “Standards work is time consuming, unforgiving, unrelenting and unpaid, so it’s no surprise that printers and publishers are reluctant to do their bit. However, the work has a profound and long lasting impact on the industry’s competitiveness. It’s important because it provides a mechanism for constant improvement in print production means and methods.”
The aim of WG11 is to have the new standard complete by drupa 2012.
WITH publication this month of criteria for the 2011 Newspaper Awards and a printed entry form inserted with this issue of PJ, it seems timely to say that the UPM sponsored Environmental Initiative of the Year is slightly changed from last year.
This award aims to recognise initiatives that have delivered improved environmental performance or championed increased environmental awareness and behaviour among newspaper readers. Entries are encouraged from any newspaper printer, publisher or business partnership which can demonstrate a measurable environmental benefit from an initiative completed or launched since the beginning of last year.
The awards judges will be looking for novel and innovative solutions which elevate the environmental credentials of the modern newspaper, supporting or using the unique properties of print on paper.
For a more detailed judging criteria, visit: www.newspaperawards.co.uk/ docs/environment.pdf
Examples could include increasing environmental awareness and responsibility through readership; community engagement and partnership; encouraging reader responsibility; championing a particular environmental issue; reducing the impact of operations or working with suppliers to improve environmental performance of raw materials or services.
Eligible initiatives can demonstrate improvement in any part of the life cycle of a newspaper, from the origin of raw materials, through production and distribution, to influencing reader behaviour.
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Chisholm: Was 2010 the bottom of the trough?
NEWSPAPER prospects are improving on both sides of the Atlantic, according to media consultant Jim Chisholm who says that the evidence is provided by stabilising revenues, improving local journalism and opportunities offered by localisation and growing digital audiences.
In an article for the international journal News & Tech he said: “While many people understandably worry that the industry’s zeal to cut costs have also cut journalistic quality, a report published by Ofcom, the UK media regulator, indicated that more than twice as many people agreed that ‘local newspaper journalism had improved’ over the last two years than those who disagreed.
“And why not? One of the greatest advantages the digital world provides is localisation. And no medium other than newspapers is better placed to deliver on the local platform, either in terms of content or revenue generation. Hence Google’s romancing of newspaper companies (and its recent commitment of $5 million towards “journalism innovation”). While the world may be globalising, we continue to live locationally based lives. This is a major opportunity for newspapers that we must win.”
Make a date with charity calendar
BUY a 2011 Picfree calendar to support our work. That’s the New Year message from The Printing Charity, formerly the Printers’ Charitable Corporation.
Darrin Stevens, founder of picfree.co.uk, has produced a 2011 calendar to raise funds for the charity. “Rather than a fixed price, the suggested donation amount per calendar is £5 or over. All money raised will go to support our work,” said charity fundraising and marketing officer Alison Braganza.
“This fantastic initiative has brought together a number of people who have donated time, resources and equipment. Most of the images used are Darrin’s own work,” she added.
The calendar was designed by Breon Snowdon at Surrect Media. The paper was donated by Xerox, the calendar printed by Konica Minolta and wire-bound at Renz, while a specially designed envelope was created by eazydesigner.com, part of Creazy.
To order a calendar, call Alison on 01293 649 366 or email alison@theprintingcharity.org.uk
NCTJ applauds award-winning students
TALENTED trainee journalists were applauded at the 2010 NCTJ Awards for Excellence when prizes went to the year’s best student and trainee reporters and photographers. The awards recognise and reward the best journalism students completing NCTJ-accredited courses and journalists/photographers with less than two years experience on the job. They were presented at the Society of Editors Conference in Glasgow by SoE board member and former president Simon Bucks.
Awards went to: news journalism trainee – Tara Russell, Southern Daily Echo, student – Leanne Rinne; sports journalism trainee – Jon Mattos, Hull Daily Mail, student – Josh Burrows; top scoop trainee – Katie Bowler, Burton Mail, student – David Raven; features of the year trainee – Megan Jorsh, News & Star, student – Jayne Garfitt; images of the year trainee – Amy Husband, South Wales Evening Post, student – Antony Kitchener; student journalist of the year – Rachel Bull, News Associates, London; photographer of the year – Lucy Shaw, Derby Telegraph; reporter of the Year – Catherine Dalton, Express & Star.
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Trelleborg appointment
TRELLEBORG Printing Blankets has a new global head following the appointment of Thomas Patrick Linkenheil as product area director. The 43-year-old’s new role will give him responsibility for around 800 employees at Trelleborg’s offset blanket manufacturing sites in France, Italy, China and the US.
UPM set to buy seven mills
UPM-Kymmene Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire Myllykoski Corporation and Rhein Papier GmbH. The approximate enterprise value of the businesses acquired is EUR 900 million.
Myllykoski Corporation and Rhein Papier GmbH consist of seven publication paper mills in Germany, Finland and the US. The total annual paper production capacity is 2.8 million tonnes. In addition, Myllykoski Corporation owns 0.8% of the Finnish energy company Pohjolan Voima Oy.
Daily Herald upgrades pre-press workflow
THE output management system printnet OM by ppi Media (a subsidiary of manroland AG) will control the prepress and plate production workflow at the Daily Herald in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The growing number of commercial jobs at the print site has necessitated the introduction of a new workflow with maximum automation.
By installing printnet OM, the newspaper will focus on integration and automation in its prepress workflow. Due to open interfaces, printnet OM can be easily integrated in the Daily Herald’s existing production workflow, which means that the new workflow will go live in the spring of 2011.
IN BRIEF
WoodWing passes 100 iPad App milestone
NETHERLANDS-based WoodWing Software, an international supplier of crossmedia publishing solutions and active in the tablet publishing market, has announced that the number of apps created with its Digital Magazine Tools has passed the century mark, with more than 100 publications now using the tools.
Magazines including Time Magazine in the US, Veja in Brazil, Stern in Germany and Le Point in France, as well as daily newspapers like Kompas in Indonesia, South China Morning Post, The Star from Malaysia and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany, create their iPad editons with WoodWing’s solution.
Blanket success at Belgian printers
PRINTING Partners Brussels ended 2010 by equipping all 12 towers on its manroland Colorman coldset press with Vulcan 202 blankets, following successful trials of the Trelleborg product. The search for a blanket that provides consistent high print quality, combined with the ability to operate the Colorman at its full 42,000 copies per hour capacity, has taken more than a year.
Boston Globe opts for multimedia CMS
THE New England Media Group has announced that The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette will adopt EidosMedia’s new-generation editorial platform Méthode to produce their print and online products, including Boston.com and the new site BostonGlobe.com which will be launched in the second half of 2011.
How to make the most from sport
THE World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is organising a conference dedicated to making the most from sports news. Making Sports News the Mainspring of Growth will be held in Paris on February 3 and 4.
WAN-IFRA South West Europe’s Sandrine Proton said: “Sport is first and foremost a passion. That being the case, what are the best ways for newspaper groups to exploit this passion in order to grow their print and digital audiences as well as attract advertisers?”
The conference, for senior executives from sports daily newspapers, national and regional dailies, online sports sites and magazines, will present initiatives and experiences of media groups to attract readers, develop new revenues and connect communities.
Matt Kelly, publisher at Mirror Group Digital in the UK, will chair the conference and will share with participants the new e-commerce offer matched to relevant content on the Mirror Football website.
Registration fees of 750 euros for WAN-IFRA members and 950 euros for non-members plus VAT include participation in the conference, lunches and refreshments. A third registration from one company is free.
More details are at www.wanifra. org/sportnews.
Schur sells major mailroom into Finland
SCHUR Packaging Systems’ first A1455 inserter in Finland is to be installed at Lehtisepät Oy which has chosen the supplier for the upcoming renewal of the mailroom system at its plant in Jyväskylä.
Besides the delivery of the high-speed inserter A 1455, the order consists of an A830 storage system for winding/unwinding of inserts and an upgrade of existing packaging lines with new wrappers for kraft paper and plastic film as well as side welding.
The equipment, which will be installed in two phases, is designed to improve the production capacity and increase flexibility.
Finland is a demanding market for mailroom equipment due to the complex distribution to widely spread readers. Lehtisepät Oy, with more than 120 years of experience in the printing industry, has production facilities located in Pieksämäki, Kuopio and Jyväskylä and had been a business partner for IDAB WAMAC for many years.
Pictured are Vesa-Pekka Kangaskorpi, president and chief executive of Keskisuomalainen Oy and Ulrik Sthaalros, chief executive of Schur Packaging Systems at the contract signing. Also present were Kari Kivinen, director of Lethisepät Oy and Erkki Kulmala, chief executive of Pressline Oy.
Hearst using Wave2 software for property site
HEARST Newspapers in the US is expanding its self-service capabilities by implementing a second Wave2 AdPortal system at the Houston Chronicle. The latest site will be primarily focused on property.
Todd Neal, vice-president, real estate advertising Hearst Newspapers said: “Having launched Wave2’s AdPortal for the small-business retail vertical, we approached Wave2 to help us replace our existing real estate site.
“At this time though, our vision had grown: not only did we want to replace our existing real estate self-service platform, we also wanted to launch other classified self-service applications like obituaries. With this vision in place, we felt it was important to provide new workflow features that would easily support a broad-range of advertisers, and also provide tighter integration with our Millennium Classified Advertising system.”
Branded as MyAgentAds.com, Todd and his team now see AdPortal as a flexible portal that can provide them with a platform to evolve the real estate business well into the future. MyAgentAds is easier to use for the agents, and easier for Hearst to manage from template creation, ad package creation, user administration, ad processing, and adding new features. Wave2 added a “recommendation engine”, that helps navigate to the correct type of ad and ad package.
Prior to launch the publisher took the decision to move its Wave2 applications to a Wave2 hosted facility, allowing the business to reduce the cost of running the self-service applications and also leverage Wave2’s enterprise architecture to expand the real estate application to four other Hearst titles: San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Albany Times-Union and Connecticut Post. All of the Hearst newspapers are now able to benefit from lower costs by sharing hosting, server, and software costs.
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The 2011 Newspaper Awards Categories & Sponsors
All categories are open to entries from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland except for International Newspaper of the Year which is open to all overseas published newspapers.
Digitally Printed Newspaper of the Year and Newspaper App of the Year are open to entries from the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and overseas publishers and printers.
The 2011 Newspaper Awards
IN ASSOCIATION WITH PJ AND FUJIFILM
Tuesday 24 May 2011 Grand Ballroom, London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, London W1
