Australia's mandatory bargaining code has passed through both parliamentary houses and is expected to get its final nod today.

Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has signed a preliminary agreement with Facebook, making it the first media company to do so since the social media giant restarted news content on its site yesterday.

A further loss of trust in Australia's 'traditional' media from 56 to 53 per cent left the country with no trusted information source, according to this year's Edelman Trust Barometer.

In the ongoing battle between traditional media and Big Tech, one skirmish was apparently resolved last night, while another took a new turn.

Having driven the country's mandatory code legislation in the first place, News Corp has held out for a global deal covering Australia as well as the UK and US.

As the clock ticks towards a vote on Australia's mandatory bargaining code, deals are being done which may see Google let off the legislation.

After just a day's Senate hearings, both the Coalition government and Labor have decided there is no need for an Australian royal commission into media diversity.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't tell Australian editors what to write, but many get opportunities to learn what he thinks, senators learned today.

WAN-Ifra's global president has written to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi urging an end to legal actions he says "threaten to undermine press freedom".

Having moved back the US to be closer to her family, Mary-Katharine Phillips has joined the News Leaders Association.

Australian media owners' lobby group ThinkNewsBrands has announced the appointment of Vanessa Lyons as general manager.

Publisher Eric Beecher has weighed in on the side of Google and Facebook, refuting claims that they have destroyed the business models of major publishers.

A new INMA report explores the economic promise of podcasts for news companies.

While Nine struggles with its free-to-air Australian Open tennis audience, organisers are using AI and 3D virtual to deliver an alternative experience to fans.

Majority News-owned sports streaming service Kayo plans to experiment with a freemium paywall next year.

Ten parent ViacomCBS ANZ is promising a digital catch-up for the broadcaster with a new channel and a deal with Unpacked by Flybuys.

A lean team and a "can-do" attitude are helping a Norwegian publisher break new ground with video coverage.

Fairfax having brought its close relationship with Adobe to Nine Entertainment, the two are now to work together on a new data partnership.

Production of the daily Dainik Jagran at more than 35 printing sites across the north of India has been streamlined through the introduction of ppi Media's solutions.

Bilingual and multiplatform, the Content-X system at The Printers Mysore in Bangalore has been implemented in just six months.

The VRM group, which is headquartered in Mainz, reaches more than one million readers and has a circulation of more than 320,000 copies.

A new home page for the Sydney Morning Herald delivers a more dynamic reading and editing experience as the Nine-owned publisher moves its focus from reach to a subscriber-based model.

A competition in which agencies and creatives are invited to build print campaign for an actual client has returned for its fourth year.

Australia's Judith Neilson Institute is providing funding for a new weekly arts and culture site from InDaily publisher Solstice Media.

What happens when you cut back print publishing days is complex, an INMA study has found.

English-language giant the Times of India created a new word with a unique version of an old favourite.

More local news outlets are launching, with a new Sunshine Coast News website from an established local publisher, and a new monthly for North Sydney.

Australia's mandatory bargaining code has passed through both parliamentary houses and is expected to get its final nod today.

Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has signed a preliminary agreement with Facebook, making it the first media company to do so since the social media giant restarted news content on its site yesterday.

A further loss of trust in Australia's 'traditional' media from 56 to 53 per cent left the country with no trusted information source, according to this year's Edelman Trust Barometer.

In the ongoing battle between traditional media and Big Tech, one skirmish was apparently resolved last night, while another took a new turn.

Having driven the country's mandatory code legislation in the first place, News Corp has held out for a global deal covering Australia as well as the UK and US.

As the clock ticks towards a vote on Australia's mandatory bargaining code, deals are being done which may see Google let off the legislation.

A new Smart Pre-setting feature from QIPC-EAE is delivering on a promise to save an extra 150-200 copies with each press start-up.

Are you tied to your press manufacturer or original supplier for press controls? Many people thought that, but ABB has been working to show that this is not true, giving press owners freedom of choice.

A new star launched into the web-offset printing firmament last month with the global launch of the Wisprint brand.

Print facilities may be closing - often to release the value of city real estate - but a number of new projects give hopoe for the future of printed newspapers.

Everything you need to get a newspaper out, from treadmills and snow-ploughs to world-renowned print technology is up for grabs in an auction next month.

While an increasing number of print sites are closing, the Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina, is installing a new press as an alternative to updating its existing double-width line.

German regional newspaper printer Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei is updating press systems to enable planning and analysis of its production.

The six-tower Goss Magnum Compact at Staten Island Advance - the world's first installation of the groundbreaking quick-change press - is to be relocated.

German regional publisher Presse-Druck und Verlags is upgrading planning and management software technology at its plant in Augsburg.

Digital print technologies came under the microscope in the twelfth day of the US Printing United Digital Experience event.

Three companies and four digital print technologies are prominent in this year's InterTech technology awards.

If there's a digital newspaper printing opportunity that doesn't justify colour, a new monochrome Screen inkjet has it covered.

Kodak's new lower-cost Ultrastream inkjet technology has emerged in a new mid-market press for which speeds of 150 metres/minute is claimed.

Xeikon says digital web presses using its new Sirius technology will run at up to 30 metres per minute.

Technology from HP and Koenig & Bauer comes together in what is being billed as the biggest digital inkjet web press in the world.

A 30-year-old manroland Lithoman heatset press is among plant for sale in Richmond, USA following the closure of the Cadmus printing plant there.

Delivered mid-March, just as COVID-19 was also arriving in the country, a sophisticated new manroland Goss Lithoman is just in production at Mercury Print Productions.

It's the ultimate sales pitch: Magazine printer Ovato NZ wants the business its main competitor has just lost with the closure of Bauer Media NZ last month.

Printers from Thailand learned more about LED-UV printing at an open day in Bangkok.

Having consolidated first to bring IPMG's NSW sites together, and again to allow the closure of PMP Moorebank, Ovato had something to show guests at Warwick Farm yesterday.

Former chairman of IPMG Michael Hannan is back in the chair following its merger with PMP to create Australian printing giant Ovato.

Pioneering flight wasn't the first formal collaboration for brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, who had a business as printers and wannabe publishers.

With Australia's 'women in print' leaders in mind, a nod to Olive Ketels, whose 95th birthday it would have been today, October 11.

Officially opened only in February, New Zealand's "letterpress in the city" Wellington Centre for Book Arts has had to suspend opening hours during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Drawing on inspiration from Minnesota, London and San Francisco, the Wellington Centre for Book Arts brings letterpress history to the city in the first centre of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

Images and film of the days of linos and letterpress are becoming increasingly rare.

Museums and letterpress printers in Australia have been urged to help stop rare items from Melbourne Museum of Printing going overseas or worse still, being scrapped.