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Agfa releases Arkitex 4.0 for newspaper printers
With drupa 2020 shifted to drupa 2021, many companies organized virtual trade shows and webinars in what would have been drupa time. The zen...
The Potential Impact of Work-From-Home on Newsrooms
Dallas 30 July 2020 – The Covid-19 pandemic started a work-from-home phenomenon that will likely outlast the coronavirus. As news media companies are thinking...
INMA report – Where advertising goes next for news media
Where advertising is likely to go next after the extraordinary impact of the Covid-19 crisis is the focus of a new report released on...
The Newsroom Summit takes on a new format!
The Newsroom Summit 2020 is going virtual on 20-21 October as a highly interactive 2 day workshop uniting industry leaders to discuss and share...
Indian news media in crisis is still powerful
It is easy to despair and easy to criticize the Indian news media. Easy to generalize and call it godimedia or sold out, or...
The inaugural ‘30 Under 30’ awards by INMA to recognize rising stars in news...
Through its Young Professionals Initiative, the International News Media Association (INMA) aims to find 30 rising stars in news media with early career achievements,...
Google will start paying some publishers for news articles
On 25 June 2020 came the news that Google will start paying some publishers for news articles. As we have reported earlier, this announcement...
Indian newsprint demand H2 2020 – updating our April 2020 outlook
Our March outlook for Indian newsprint demand was pessimistic, anticipating a fall in consumption to 1.5 million tons in the financial year 20-21 ending...
News archives, databases, DAMs and ePapers from Comyan
The concept of an archive, whether it was a physical store of disintegrating ink on paper or even microfiche facsimiles stored on film to...
Asian news media enterprises embark on a five-month transformation program
Amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled global economies and is threatening the future of the media industry, ten news media companies from six...
Millenial disruption and how to keep it from killing your news brand
Today, Millennials are the largest generation since World War II, surpassing the Baby Boomers in numbers. This generation will soon have more combined purchasing...
Swiss media house invests in Commander CL newspaper press
Swiss media house Somedia Partner is investing in a highly automated newspaper press from Koenig & Bauer. A Commander CL will be installed as...
INMA releases report on news subscriptions in the age of coronavirus
How news publishers navigate the unpredictable surge in traffic and subscription starts during the COVID-19 crisis is the focus of a new report released...
WAN-IFRA joins the Independent News Emergency Relief Coordination (INERC)
The Independent News Emergency Relief Coordination (INERC) is an effort to help assist funders willing and able to provide significant financial support for independent...
Fake news puts publishers in jeopardy
In India, COVID-19 arrived about a month later compared to many parts of Europe. Currently, the pandemic is on the verge of entering its...
France rules Google must pay news firms for content
Reuters reported on 9 April 2020 from Paris that France’s competition authority ruled on the same day that Google must pay French publishing companies...
Can Indian newspapers survive the Covid-19 pandemic!
4 April 2020 Guwahati – As an unprecedented lockdown continues in India, its newspapers face an uphill task to maintain their devoted readership. The...
Indian newsprint demand outlook – from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021

A definition of newsprint is the substrate on which news is commonly and economically printed. Print itself encompasses media with advertising distributed in physical...
ppi Media is playing an important role in ensuring newspaper production for its Indian...
A comprehensive package of measures was put together by ppi Media in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing its employees to work...
India’s Best Printed Newspapers 2018-2020
The International Color Quality Club (ICQC) contest is conducted by World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), once in every two years since 1994. This...
Gulf News waterless printing plates to conserve water & expand product offerings
Toray, the leader in innovative solutions for waterless offset printing, today reported that Gulf News, the largest circulated English-language newspaper in the United Arab...
Raj Jain of BCCL clears air about safety of home delivery of newspapers
With India under a 21-day lockdown due to Covid-19 outbreak, there have been numerous reports that vendors are not picking up newspapers because resident...
WAN-IFRA highlights how newsrooms are tackling Covid-19
WAN-IFRA has created a website to highlight how newsrooms are around the world are tackling the Covid-19, with articles sourced from media journalists and...
Wan-Ifra postpones Newsroom Leaders program due to coronavirus
Wan-Ifra recently announced that it has decided to postpone the Newsroom Leaders initiative from the World Editors Forum and Wan-Ifra. It is a module-based...
Breaking news – Can Ricoh India come back in 2020?
While Ricoh seems to be doing well globally, in India, it suffered a massive disruption several years ago, due to poor governance. The Japan-based...
US newspaper publisher McClatchy files for bankruptcy protection
McClatchy, the second-largest publisher of newspapers in the United States by circulation, has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy protection under the country’s Chapter 11 law...
The fear of monetizing news
Like most newspapers around the world, the Indian newspapers are facing declining circulations. In the past year, the competition from digital has hit home;...
Newsrooms Trends – Managing safety
Threats to journalists are everywhere, both in person and online. Verbal and physical attacks, and sexual and digital harassment have become commonplace. Arrests, kidnapping,...
Nikkan Pro Sports boosts newspaper production with Tecnau Newsready
Nikkan Pro Sports Newspaper launched the first sport newspaper in Japan in 1947. Since then, the company has focused on publishing and selling track...
Revenues decline for Indian newspapers
With digital media taking away a major chunk of ad revenue, the major Indian newspapers struggle to maintain their growth.
HT Media
The net consolidated income...
WAN-IFRA gets EUR 7 million fund for its Women in News program
A 4-year grant from Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, will enable WAN-IFRA’s Women in News program to expand to new markets, launch...
Revenues decline for Indian newspapers
With digital media taking away a major chunk of ad revenue, the major Indian newspapers struggle to maintain their growth.
HT Media
The net consolidated income...
WAN-IFRA workshop on integrated multi-platform newsroom
Wan-IFRA will conduct an exclusive workshop for the leadership and editorial team in print and digital on 18-19 December in Mumbai.
The two-day workshop, led...
INMA’s new report lays out the role of newsrooms in reader revenue
A recently released report by the International News Media Association (INMA) looks at the essential functions of a readers-first newsroom, why trust is vital...
Automated newspaper publishing software by Summit
Summit Information Technologies, a newspaper, magazine, and ePaper publishing software provider was established in 1991 with its first automated editorial content management software, News...
Program for change in Asian newsrooms
Ten news publishers across Asia will be able to speed up the transformation of their newsrooms to ensure they are both audience-centered, and sustainable,...
Indian newsroom modernization since the 1970s
Generally, news originates from the pen of a reporter. It is his view of the event as he sees it. What has changed in recent...
Wan-Ifra India – the state of the Indian newspaper industry
At the recent Wan-Ifra India conference in Gurgaon, it was difficult to gauge the health of the newspaper industry in India. There was still...
WAN-IFRA report on the benefits of AI in resource-challenged newsrooms
A new report, 'AI in the Newsroom', has been published by the World Editors Forum, the network for editors within WAN-IFRA. The report is...
The 9th annual 50 fastest growing newspapers of India
In a year that newspaper circulation demand has not really grown, it is again difficult to choose the 50 fastest growing daily newspapers in...
News media transformation – bringing new ideas to life
Naresh Khanna:Â Apart from word processing in English, the use of computers for Indian languages was mostly restricted to phototypesetting on film until 1984. At...
Sakata INX innovations for newspaper printing
Sakata INX is a major Japanese ink supplier in India with manufacturing plants in Bhiwadi in the North and Panoli in Western India. In...
Unlike Google and Facebook, news media is not telling its story well
Mariam Mammen Mathew, the chief executive officer of Manorama Online, one of the largest media houses in India, says that newspapers having digital media...
Interview – Dhanya Rajendran The News Minute
Dhanya Rajendran is the co-founder of the Bengaluru-based The News Minute, an independent digital news startup covering the south of India. The News Minute,...
The appeal of fake news
Propaganda, misinformation and hoaxes spread through traditional news or online social media – digital news has brought back the age-old tradition of increased fake...
Need for a news business model that rewards credibility
Sponsoring the news at Media Rumble 2019 was an interesting discussion among the panelists – Atika Malik, chief operating officer at Cheil, columnist and...
WAN IFRA news design workshop – 19 & 20 August, Bengaluru
WAN IFRA is organizing a design workshop for designers and news editors on 19 and 20 August 2019 in Bengaluru. Whether in print or...
The automation of news at Media Rumble 3
During the session, 'AI to machine learning: The automation of news' at Media Rumble 3, panelists including Kavya Sukumar, developer at Hearken, Kawaljit Singh...
News will survive!
We recently met Gyan Gupta, the former chief executive officer of DB digital, who in the past year has gone on to build his...
INS asks government to withdraw 10% customs duty on newsprint
On 8 July 2019, the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) requested the central government to withdraw the 10% customs duty imposed on newsprint, uncoated paper...
