Rupert Murdoch's The Weekend Australian was sporting a brand new strapline to its masthead this morning after being named 2018 News Brand of the Year in last night's rebadged awards.

One way or another, most speakers at Friday's Inform News Media Summit agreed Facebook and Google were doing a great job. At marketing.

Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings has bought 14 student accommodation buildings in the UK, providing beds for almost 3500.

London-headquartered Public Relations and Communications Association has launched in southeast Asia with a dozen regional members.

America's NewsMediaAlliance has welcomed reversal of US tariffs on imported Canadian newsprint as the "right call".

Let's hear it for the Spotpress team in Seven TV's Dance Boss, unluckily pipped in the final four of the Australian dance competition.

Rupert Murdoch's The Weekend Australian was sporting a brand new strapline to its masthead this morning after being named 2018 News Brand of the Year in last night's rebadged awards.

One way or another, most speakers at Friday's Inform News Media Summit agreed Facebook and Google were doing a great job. At marketing.

Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings has bought 14 student accommodation buildings in the UK, providing beds for almost 3500.

London-headquartered Public Relations and Communications Association has launched in southeast Asia with a dozen regional members.

America's NewsMediaAlliance has welcomed reversal of US tariffs on imported Canadian newsprint as the "right call".

Let's hear it for the Spotpress team in Seven TV's Dance Boss, unluckily pipped in the final four of the Australian dance competition.

As the football World Cup progresses, fans and tecchies alike have been able to savour mind-blowing visual effects and the imaginative use global broadcasters have made of them.

The eccentricities of billionaire media moguls are something the industry needs to get used to, but it's taking time to come to terms with Jack Ma's performance aspirations.

An audience delivered via YouTube now supports the blue water dreams of a few with the imagination to exploit it.

With the rapid advances in technology, people can tune into their favourite OTT platforms anytime and anywhere, but how do you meet demand for such content.

More than three decades since it was founded, and almost that since the birth of its best-known child, Adobe continues to amaze.

Helping publishers turn video investments into a successful strategy is the subject of a 'deep dive video day" during WAN-Ifra's International Newsroom Summit in London this month.

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

SPH Magazines says it is "bridging the physical-digital divide" with pocket-sized subscription cards which allow readers to access magazines on their own devices.

What would South Australian daily The Advertiser have looked like if the internet had been around in 1858?

Top speakers from India and New Zealand have joined the roster for AIM Group's AutosPlus18 conference in London.

ABP flagship Anandabazar Patrika has launched a hyperlocal 'paper within the paper' to make it more attractive to readers in six districts.

Participants in a Bali masterclass were told to consider an exit strategy among options, writes Peter Coleman

New Zealand-based publisher Stuff is connecting with online users at a new level following its full acquisition of social media platform Neighbourly.

Federico Marturano has taken over as chief executive of Atex group, following Anders Christiansen's retirement.

Regional broadcasters and newsmedia companies - including, whisper it, the occasional print publisher - are among those lined up to provide content for Twitter.

Just when Australia's biggest newsmedia company was about to move into free to air TV, everything changed, writes Peter Coleman.

Atex has strengthened its advertising management offering with the acquisition of Tieto's cloud-based Cross Advertising product.

E-commerce sites such as Amazon and Alibaba pose a unique threat to established classifieds and marketplaces.

More than half of all Australians "could be served addressable TV tomorrow", according to Roy Morgan research... and that's not including those with unconfigured smart TVs.

New ABB consoles are being commissioned in February on four KBA Commander presses at Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings in Jurong as part of a programme covering all 16 presses.

Colour register control is winning growing recognition in India with orders for Dutch specialist QI Press Controls from printer Pudhari Publications and press maker Sigmarq.

An expiring lease and the end of a print contract have prompted a new life for an 11-tower Goss Magnum at one of MittMedia Print's five print sites in Sweden.

Not satisfied with reducing ink consumption to 2g a copy, German newspaper printer Druckhaus Ulm-Oberschwaben (DUO) is looking to further savings with automatic colour control.

Its remote location - an island in the Indian Ocean and an outpost of the French empire - lends strength to La Réunion's argument for technical innovation.

manroland has completed a swift nerve centre transplant for HT Media in New Delhi, replacing the interbus loop on a 12-year-old Colorman in just a fortnight.

The RotaJet inkjet web press has been named one of the seven best-designed products in this year's iF Design awards.

Screen's Truepress Jet520HD inkjet web press has been honoured with an award by Japan's Society of Printing Science and Technology, following up on the InterTech award it won last year

Integrated digital and offset print systems are taking over at Bertelsman's GGP Media at a print site in Germany's Poseneck.

Fujifilm is taking global control of Xerox under a deal which takes the 56-year-old Fuji Xerox partnership to the world.

Personalised, localised print newspapers are on the agenda again following a world tour by the man who may yet put them back in fashion, Jean-Pierre Vittu de Kerraoul.

Linking delivered print - be it a targetted newspaper or promotional print - to online retargetting data is a frontier being explored by mail operators in Europe.

manroland has signed an order for three web presses to Ethiopian printer TBO Printing & Publishing.

A comprehensively-equipped Goss M600 is being installed at French print house Imprimerie Guillaume in Comines.

The 'see-saw' effect of Australia's crowded and limited heatset printing market has seen Ive Group report a 73 per cent increase in revenue, while rival PMP has delivered warned-of lower profits.

Turkish book printer Tuna Matbaacilik will install its first heatset press next year, with the acquisition of a semicommercial manroland Uniset 75 press.

A 96-page Goss Sunday 5000 will replace two 48-page presses at Spanish giant Rotocobrhi in Madrid.

Less than six months after announcing a new location for the facility, Ive Group has its new 80-page heatset pressline and other equipment in production in Sydney's Huntingwood

Sydney print recruitment consultant James Cryer tells the intimate story of a printing industry in the midst of dramatic change, as related in in the personal diary of his grandfather.

A meeting of Sydney Pressgang at Penrith Museum of Printing in September will be an opportunity for those interested to see the newly-renovated museum 'in action'.

The name of inkmaker and typefounder Frederick Wimble is writ large on Good Friday week when an inaugural lecture and the return of a traditional wayzgoose brings print fans to Armidale, NSW.

A heartening tale about the value of tangible print history comes with the US$10 million valuation of a collection of old letterpress printing blocks.

With a stay of execution on its present location, there are hopes for a new future for two Cossar presses in Pahiatua, New Zealand, with the formation of an action committee to make plans and raise funds.

Contributions have begin to come in to a fund to restore the Kiwi Cossars, with a Pahiatua pensioner first to make a donation.