Publishers: Don’t give away the (data) store!

Publishers must act to stop third parties from grabbing audience data about their sites off the Internet and selling advertising on the basis of those measurements, says Paul Hood of UK-based Archant. “Until we stop” this data leakage, publishers will continue fighting a losing battle for online ad revenues, he says at “Harnessing Audience Analytics: an SFN Forum” on Tuesday.

BILD streamlines newsroom workflow efficiency

Chris Simon, Managing Editor of Germany’s BILD, discussed how his paper’s CMS system is enabling the company to take control of the entire production process across all platforms during a Media Port “Workflow Efficiency” session on Tuesday morning in Berlin.

RotaJet digital press in focus at KBA

At the company’s press conference, KBA’s CEO and President Claus Bolza-Schünemann said the volume of new investment in newspaper printing technology has shrunk dramatically (more than 70% since 2006). Despite its market share of around 40% for new newspaper presses, KBA expects a continued moderate decline in investment in newspaper production equipment through 2015, rather than a significant recovery.

manroland announces sale of a FoldLine and a Colorman, cooperation with S.E.M.

In a press conference on Monday afternoon manroland web systems informed the trade press, among other things, about recent equipment sales and a cooperation agreement with S.E.M. Eckhard Hörner-Maraß, Managing Director of manroland web system, declared that after two difficult years the company is back on track and trys to recapture the lead position in the newspaper segment. The focus of the company, he said, will remain on web offset.

HOME BUSINESS DIGITAL MEDIA EDITORIAL INCUBATOR PRESS FREEDOM MEDIA POLICY From 0 to video in 30 seconds

John Paton, CEO of US-based Digital First Media, describes a video app that gets journalists out of the office. It does more than that, of course: it drives user engagement to previously unheard-of levels, for instance.

The future of news coverage – for every generation

Andy Kohut’s analysis on Poynter.org of recent Pew surveys presents a challenging outlook on the future of journalism. Figures show that those aged between 18 and 47 (spanning the two generational categories “Gen Xers” and “Millenials”) spend “less time than older people following the news at the outset of their adulthood,” and Kohut states that “younger generations just don’t enjoy following the news.”

La Presse + bucks paid-for trend with free tablet edition

This past spring, La Presse, Canada’s French-language news medium of record, launched a free daily iPad edition called La Presse+, which it had spent approximately four years and $40 million developing.

Panel discussion on the Power of Print Media Port

In a panel discussion moderated by Karl Malik (publisher of PreMedia Newsletter), newspaper publishers from Canada, India and Germany try to define the role of print in the multimedia pack. The panelists (left to right) are: Phillip Crawley, Publisher and CEO, The Globe and Mail, Canada; Dipankar Das Purkayastha, Managing Director and CEO, ABP, India; and Iwan Ittermann, Publisher, Warum Verlag GmbH, Germany.

Digital and offset – a good combination

At the SFN Forum on Digital Printing Strategies Dario de Cian, General Manager of the Italian newspaper printing centre CSQ, shares his experiences with a digital inkjet press that is used (for about seven months now) in parallel with the company’s offset presses to produce hyper-local inserts for the daily newspaper.

Experiences with a multi-channel paywall

What do you do when the print circulation of your newspaper drops off? At the Media Port session, “Monetising digital: Income from content: News products and paywalls,” Kaisa Aalto of Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat described one approach to remedying that not-uncommon ailment.