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What is GDPR?
In the interest of safeguarding the personal data and privacy of EU (European Union) citizens, the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

It's the regulation that everyone should be talking about.

Quark has officially announced the availability of QuarkXPress 2018 on 16 May 2018. The latest version of Quark's graphic design and page layout software is claimed to set standards for innovation in

In what Konica Minolta is calling a paradigm shift in the Indian printing industry, the company has installed its first state-of-the-art UV inkjet press, the AccurioJet KM-1 at Dina Color Labs in Ellis Road in Chennai.

A reader-focused business model with digital subscriptions at the core represents the news industry’s best hope to replace a declining print business model and maintain scalable journalism, according to a new report released

The Wire recently published a report with a hard-hitting headline: ‘The Toughest Enemy of Press Freedom Is the One Within.’ The report, by Sidharth Bhatia, centers largely round the laws governing

WAN-IFRA South Asia Digital Media Awards will be presented at WAN-IFRA India 2018 Annual Conference in Hyderabad, India from 25 to 27 September 2018. The registration opened on 1 May and the last date is 9 June 2018. The deadline for submission is 16 June 2018.

FIPP Asia will take place in Wuhan, China, in partnership with the China Periodicals Association and Hubei Administration. The event will bring together the world’s leading magazine media publishers

Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA announced its latest production printing device for the commercial print industry – the WEBjet 200D and WEBjet100D continuous feed inkjet presses

Established nearly four decades ago, Delhi/NCR-based Archana Printing Press offers a wide range of printing services to the industry. The company specializes in projects such as annual reports,

As publishers increasingly embrace the art and science behind the economics of content, the freemium model for digital subscriptions is clearly emerging as the most popular choice for

A mainstream business daily reported last week that rising investments in digital marketing are expected to reach US$ 300 billion in 2020. On the other hand, a digital media audit firm says that as 

Baldwin Technology Company has reached an agreement with QuadGraphics  to acquire the intellectual property rights for the Digital Ink System. This will enable continued development of the technology.

On 18 April, Fujifilm India unveiled a dedicated website (www.powerofinkjet.in) for customers in the inkjet printing segment. The unveiling was done by Sandip Thanawala of Mumbai-based

The formation of a Global Council to Build Trust in Media and Fight Misinformation was announced at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The World Association of Newspapers and News

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno confirmed today the murder of three El Comercio staff, kidnapped on 26 March on the border between Ecuador and Colombia by dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

FIPP Asia 2018 will be held on 14-15 September 2018 at Wuhan, China in partnership with the China Periodicals Association and Hubei Administration. The event will bring the world’s leading

Facebook could be in legal trouble as parliaments call for action, for it has never asked authorization for what it would do with the user data. Privacy violation to sway public opinion has been going on since Arab Springs. Seven years ago,

Sonora X is described as more robust thanks to a proprietary enhanced anodizing and coating technology that allows it to cope with highly automated or fast-paced operating environments.

WAN-IFRA was born in 1948 as FIEJ (International Federation of Newspaper Publishers). In Estoril, Portugal this June, 70 years will separate

Since Indian Printer and Publisher published its first issue as a monthly technical newsletter in April 1979, the current issue marks forty years of publication and the beginning of our 41st year. It also marks forty years

INMA has announced the inaugural INMA South Asia Media Festival to take place from 6 to10 August 2018 – a five-day event offering new ideas, best practices and growth strategies for

Lately the newsprint prices have shot up in India and worldwide. Recently, the government of the United States of America hit the Canadian forestry industry with duties and also held to 

When we wrote about the Hindi daily Amar Ujala a year ago, it was in the process of installing and establishing five new automated presslines in its Meerut, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi 

Around the world, social media is making it easier for people to have a voice in government—to discuss issues, organize around causes and hold leaders accountable. As recently as 2011

Karin Pettersson, director of Public Policy at the Schibsted Media Group, has been elected chairwoman of the WAN-IFRA Media Freedom Board. She succeeds Lars Henrik Munch, chairman 

WAN-IFRA APAC has announced the winners shortlist for the 17th edition of the Asian Media Awards. The 17th edition of the Asian Media Awards attracted 435 entries from countries all over Asia and the Middle East.

Without generating revenues directly from readers, journalism is doomed, write the editors of FIPP and Innovation Media Consulting’s Innovation World Report in their editors’ letter for the 2018/19 edition.

The winners of WAN-IFRA’s Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards for 2018 were honoured at the close of the first day of the 13th Annual Middle East Conference, which took place at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina from 28

In a joint press release on 1 March 2108, Goss International and manroland web systems announced the merger of their web offset businesses.

Koenig & Bauer has announced a price increase with effect from 1 April 2018 for the entire product portfolio. “This price increase is being effected against the background of rising prices and is a necessary step for us to continue offering our customers

The Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA), which is organizing the PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 exhibition at India Expo Centre in Greater Noida from 1 to 6 February 2019, has already sold more than 60% of

New Straits Times Press (NSTP), a Malaysian conglomerate of publishing companies owned by Media Prima, is transforming its footprint on digital platforms. NSTP has redefined its vision and 

The Digital Media India 2018 Conference, held from 9 to 12 February in Mumbai, discussed ways to refurbish content strategies for publications on the digital platform. One of the key topics of 

In line with successes in 2017, manroland web systems has clearly made another breakthrough in the Indian market—latest one being manroland’s recent sale of a three-tower Cromoman 4-1 press to one of the leading Bengali language

GroupM, the media investment group of WPP, in its ‘This Year, Next Year’ 2018 report, launched on 13 February, has forecast India’s advertising investment to reach an estimated Rs. 69,346 crore this year, representing a growth of 13% for the

Dainik Bhaskar’s in-house digital arm, DB Digital has come up with an AI-based powerful content recommendation engine called ‘Wisdom Next.’ The software helps targets its readers through advertisements using algorithms and AI.

The year 2017 was a record year for the import of pulp used for papermaking in Asia. China has led this growth over the past ten years and if its consumption growth for lumber and pulp were to 

Kodak announced an initial cryptocurrency coin offering (ICO) on 9 January 2108, in an effort to apply blockchain technology to solve copyright issues faced by photographers.

Created in 2000, Publish Asia is an annual meeting place for the Asian newspaper and news publishing industry. More than 400 media executives from over 30 different countries will gather in 

WAN-IFRA’s media freedom team has launched a new monthly podcast, focused on challenging issues that journalists and media organizations face and how they tackle obstacles to continue reporting the news.

Digital Media India will be held from 7-9 February 2018, at the Courtyard by Marriott Mumbai International Airport.

For legacy news media companies, engaging youth audiences is still a great challenge. For millennials, we should think and move beyond online articles such as native formats – from

World Media Group hosts the third World Media Awards in its anniversary year. As the group hosts the third World Media Awards, it calls for more entries from India.

Dainik Jagran is the leading Hindi daily with the highest readership of any daily newspaper in the country according to the Readership Survey 2017 released on 18 January 2018. In the years since Jagran Prakashan

The Hindi dailies represent around one-third of the printed newspaper in the country. Recent examination of the DAVP list of language papers, ABC circulation figures and the IRS 2017 readership survey figures have

The company started manufacturing autopasters in 2011 when not many Indian companies were able to do this. It also supplied bespoke (made to order) folders for imported presses. Sigmarq achieved success with its

The ‘India Freedom Report: Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in 2017’ by The Hoot says that the last year saw 11 journalists murdered (three clearly for reasons connected to their work), 46 attacks on