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Hold the horses: award-winning WA press ad uses classic animation
An award-winning press ad for Western Australian steel supplier Midalia Steel attracts attention with a classic animation technique.

Roussel joins next week's 'newsroom summit' line-up
Edward Roussel, digital editor of the UK's Telegraph Media Group is the latest speaker to join the line-up for WAN-Ifra's ninth International Newsroom Summit, September 8-9.

Vietnam Youth Daily is Asia first for Atex Polopoly
A new English-language website for Vietnam’s largest newspaper ‘Tuoi Tre’ (Youth Daily) is Atex’s first Polopoly web CMS project in Asia.

Best digital media? WAN-Ifra on the lookout for competition entries
Having announced at Publish Asia that it was separating digital media categories from the annual Asia Media Awards, WAN-Ifra is now on the lookout for entries for the first Asian Digital Media Awards, to be presented during the Digital Media Asia 2010 conference in Singapore in November.

Fairfax takes top PANPA prize, but News, Asians and others also star
Tightly-contested categories for this year’s PANPA Newspaper of the Year awards saw the Fairfax metropolitan daily ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ beat News Limited stablemates ‘The Australian’, Melbourne’s ‘Herald Sun’ and Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’ in the top daily circulation category.

Passion, quality, and the iPad dominate PANPA’s Future Forum
Today's PANPA Future Forum delivered on what it promised… a glimpse into the future of the newspaper industry… and in spades (writes Peter Coleman)

Behind the ideas that earn dollars for SPH
Having contributed marketing ideas to earlier conferences, the Singapore Press Holdings team contributed some of the technical detail behind some of its wrappers and special projects to a session at Publish Asia in Kuala Lumpur.

Newsroom integration: The heaven and the hell
All the technology in the world cannot solve the birth pains of a cross-media integrated newsroom when human factors go wrong, writes Peter Coleman.

Star performer: Malaysia's top tab open to view
I renewed an acquaintance with Malaysia’s ‘Star’ on the overnight flight from Brisbane... and was pleasantly surprised, writes Peter Coleman.

Capital idea: Canberra's culture of quality
There’s a culture of quality about Fairfax Media’s Canberra print site, Capital Fine Print, which is perhaps encapsulated in the fact they still refer to the 14-year-old manroland Geoman there as ‘the new press’.

The search for quality's 'holy grail'
World-class print quality has become a ‘must-have’ for newspaper publishers in their struggle for eyeballs and advertising dollars against competition from other media.

Print focus 'still strong' at IfraExpo
Despite all the hype surrounding the iPad, Android and other innovations, WAN-Ifra says the core business of publishing houses – print – will play an outstanding role at its IfraExpo in Hamburg (October 4-6).

Book launch puts Kirkpatrick close to a brush with history
When Mackay-based newspaper historian Rod Kirkpatrick visited Melbourne for the launch of his book, ‘The Bold Type: A history of Victoria’s country newspapers, 1840-2010’, he nearly found himself making history.

40 per cent surge steers KBA towards the black
A surge in big newspaper press orders is part of the reason KBA is “heading back into the black” with higher level of capacity utilisation, and a return to full-time work at most plants.

PANPA awards finalists: 'Best ever'
Finalists have been named for this year’s NPA/PANPA Newspaper of the Year awards, due to be presented at a gala dinner in Sydney on August 26.

Goss order for People's Daily confirmed
Goss International and China's 'People's Daily' in Beijing have announced an order agreed earlier this year for a two-around Goss Universal press.

Digital newspapers in Réunion: Green print out in the blue
Located in the Indian Ocean, just east of Madagascar and 6000 km west of Perth, Réunion Island has had its own newspaper since 1773, but it has taken until this year for locals to read the rest of the world’s papers on the day they are published.

manroland to sell Tensor presses in South East Asia
With immediate effect, manroland is to market and distribute Tensor's single width-press newspaper presses in South East Asia and some other countries.

Publish Asia: Bangkok gets another chance in 2011
Relocated from a Bangkok venue which is no longer standing following riots earlier this year, Publish Asia delivered a comprehensive two-day programme in Kuala Lumpur, aimed nominally at chief executives, newsroom and printing heads.

New high-speed Uniset press for Xin’an Media
A new hybrid heatset/coldset manroland Uniset for joint venture the Xin’an Media Corporation will be the first in China capable of production at 80,000 cph.

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