Hong Kong newsmedia publisher South China Morning Post has recruited Ian Hocking from News UK as its digital director of advertising.

An Australian algorithm regulator, able to probe Google and Facebook's opacity, is among recommendations of a preliminary report by the country's competition watchdog.

Newscycle will add MG2's subscription and audience tools to its digital platform following acquisition of the Pennsylvania-based software company.

Emma-rated newsmedia will benefit from an interim calibration to Nielsen's digital content audience targets, pending delivery of its full synthetic database.

The "split personality" of one of Australia's best-known news websites, smh.com.au was just one of the problems that needed fixing when Jess Ross joined Fairfax Media in 2016.

If you're in doubt about the enduring appeal of print, note the rush which greeted Rasmus Nielsen's limited offer of hardcopy copies of the Reuters Digital News Report he'd brought to Digital Media Asia's Hong Kong venue from...

The newsletter of the Australian Newspaper History Group has celebrated its 100th edition with the story of the 1979 agreement on "direct input" of journalists' text, 20 years before it was founded.

Increasing advertising revenue to publishers would be a simple way in which Google could help journalism, the ABC's Gaven Morris says.

While sometimes appearing to relish reporting staff cuts at rival Fairfax Media, News Corp Australia tends to be tight-lipped about changes in its own workforce.

Literally like a white rabbit out of a hat, A$100 million has popped up to celebrate and encourage quality journalism in Australia.

INMA is taking its European Media Innovation Week to Hamburg next year for a conference, seminar and study tour.

There was last-minute fun and games for Fairfax Media shareholders as former Domain chief executive Antony Catalano expressed an interest in taking over the business, without - it was decided - formalising a bid.

In case you missed it, this is the opening video from last week's WAN-Ifra Digital Media Asia event.

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.

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.

Native advertising - in all its forms - has become a key item for publishers, accounting for a fifth of advertising revenue.

News Corp has told the story of its True Crime Australia podcast and video series which this morning led to an arrest in what has been known as the Teachers Pet case.

INMA will take its media subscriptions week concept to Stockholm with a new summit next March.

Persuasive arguments for advertising in newspapers and newsmedia are brought together in a new research document from US-based News Media Alliance.

Productising journalism - or user-generated content for that matter - were two of the concepts being canvassed as Digital Media Asia got underway today.

Australia's three biggest newsmedia groups are backing a national campaign to stress the value of trusted journalism to advertisers.

Hong Kong newsmedia publisher South China Morning Post has recruited Ian Hocking from News UK as its digital director of advertising.

An Australian algorithm regulator, able to probe Google and Facebook's opacity, is among recommendations of a preliminary report by the country's competition watchdog.

Newscycle will add MG2's subscription and audience tools to its digital platform following acquisition of the Pennsylvania-based software company.

Emma-rated newsmedia will benefit from an interim calibration to Nielsen's digital content audience targets, pending delivery of its full synthetic database.

The "split personality" of one of Australia's best-known news websites, smh.com.au was just one of the problems that needed fixing when Jess Ross joined Fairfax Media in 2016.

If you're in doubt about the enduring appeal of print, note the rush which greeted Rasmus Nielsen's limited offer of hardcopy copies of the Reuters Digital News Report he'd brought to Digital Media Asia's Hong Kong venue from...

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.

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

It's an 'in' joke at Germany's Weiss Druck that their Colorman e:line press - the first to be installed - was known as the Gipfelstürmer or "summit climber". Another translation is "ambitious person".

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

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.

Viability of the digital newspaper printing proposition varies from geographic market to market, but if you want to check out the latest ideas, Lucerne in February is the place to be.

The introduction of an NIR dryer for Screen's 520HD inkjet web will deliver higher print speeds on coated litho stocks and expand lightweight paper capabilities, the company says.

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.

Clients and the industry got a glimpse of Ive Group's $50 million Franklin Web NSW heatset plant this week, one of the largest investments in the Australian industry for some years.

The newly-merged manroland Goss web systems has sold a German-designed Lithoman heatset press to a US printer.

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.

They have been firing up the pots on three hot-metal linecasters at the Penrith Museum of Printing again following a major renovation and extension.

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.