A programme of commitment to its stakeholders and community has earned Jaipur publisher Rashtradoot a place among INMA's special COVID-19 response awards category.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is reaching its peak in India, Times Group technical director Snehasis Roy has outlined the moves the English-language giant has had to make.

There's a saying that "good news is no news", but during the COVID-19 pandemic, four Nine platforms in Australia are tapping a need for "some light alongside the shade" in their coverage... and welcome.

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.

Global newsmedia organisation WAN-Ifra has put together a list of journalism emergency funds around the world.

Almost two-thirds of the $50 million PING support for Australian media announced today is funds already promised two years ago.

The economic effects of COVID-19 on communities worldwide are wreaking havoc on the advertising marketplaces on which media companies rely to fund journalism, according to speakers addressing the first day of the INMA Virtual...

With pandemic lockdowns slowly lifting, businesses begin to envision what the "new normal" will be - and with it will come clues to what will happen next in advertising. Which ways could things go next for advertising? What l...

News media companies are facing current declines in revenue head-on with innovative, inspiring efforts. Three companies shared their strategies, goals, and some early results at INMA's Virtual World Congress last Monday.

It's midnight in Sydney - an odd hour for INMA president Damian Eales to be at a conference - but the day is yet young in Dallas.

If you can report freely - and it's clearly getting harder - there's a reason to mark UNESCO's 2020 World Press Freedom Day, "a moment for journalism".

INMA has developed a virtual format to replace the World Congress event it was to have held in Paris this month.

"It's the community who will suffer the loss," Tom Offermann takes time out from marketing another $20 million property to tell me.

Only the Toowoomba Chronicle of the former APN portfolio will survive in print of the mass of mastheads News Corp Australia says today it will switch to digital-only publication.

What may prove the biggest bloodbath since Rupert Murdoch's 1987 takeover of the HWT is foretold in an announcement by News Corp Australia today.

A six-part virtual training programme for journalists in India has been launched by WAN-Ifra.

Anyone who has met her or heard her speak will be delighted with the news that Sinead Boucher has been able to buy New Zealand's Stuff newsmedia business.

News ink is clearly in the blood for Michael Waite, whose mother managed the Naracoorte, South Australia local paper for 35 years.

After vowing last month to support Australian musos by playing all-Australian music on Mondays, Foxtel is to cut its own locally-produced music channels altogether.

Restructuring and transformation continue at Australia's Ten Network, close to two years after the broadcaster was placed in voluntary administration.

Another streaming service is to vie for Australia's SVOD market with the launch of joint venture Britbox.

Mobile journalism trainer Robb Montgomery has published his latest gear list... and it's l-e-a-n.

News Corp Australia - which last week launched a new news podcast - says it has "no plans" to follow its UK sister company into the talk radio arena.

Growth in Netflix has powered the adoption of pay and subscription TV in Australia, paving the way for the arrival of Disney+ and Apple+.

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.

It wouldn't have taken a Roy Morgan readership survey to tell News Corp's strength in regional Australia is in Queensland, while that of Australian Community Media is in NSW and ACT.

A campaign from the UK encourages Australian advertisers to take advantage of the downturn to gain market share.

Australian Community Media is doing its bit for tourism in areas which were badly affected by bushfires.

Delegates in Fort Worth, Texas, for the Key Executives Mega-Conference find themselves in the midst of an experiment.

Doors open and close on Sydney's street and music press with a revival of Rolling Stone this month and the end of The Brag.

Books for preschoolers are back as News Corp Australia aims to encourage and inspire families to read with young children in its annual Raise a Reader campaign.

Publishing systems specialist Peter Marsh has died following a battle with cancer.

WAN-Ifra Asia is looking forward to October, when categories in the Asian Digital Media Awards will be honoured.

Michelle Gunn has added editorship of The Australian to her responsibilities, becoming the first woman to do so since Rupert Murdoch launched the masthead in 1964.

Travel, food and digital subscriptions are the keywords in Michael Miller's blueprint for News Corp following the failure of its talks with Australian Community Media.

Google's Mel Silva is "missing the point" when it likens its platform to a newsagent or retailer, NewsMediaWorks chief executive Peter Miller says.

In a market distinguished by offers and incentives, newspaper advertising in Australia grew strongly while that in New Zealand was the highest in March since 2017.

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.

While print sites are shutting in other parts of the world because of COVID-19, a significant press project is pushing ahead in Spokane in the US Northwest.

A three-stage press installation at Stuart Web in Florida has transformed the commercial printer's single-width press, virtually without upsetting production.

A recently-acquired Goss Universal 50 at leading Colombian newspaper Vanguardia Liberal is to have its QI Press Controls' colour register and cut-off system updated.

When Gerhard Tapken bought the newspaper printing company of which he was managing director in 2018, "many people thought I was crazy".

Three elderly but trusted Harris web presses are now 'state-of-the-art', thanks to new control technology.

Consistent performance over a decade and millions of copies has helped QIPC/EAE to an upgrade order from one of China's biggest media groups.

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.

Digital printing plant now being installed in Montpelier, France is central to a new initiative aimed at building a future for a regional daily and the nation's press.

New features for inkjet web print finishing are being launched by Tecnau at Canon's Poing event.

Koenig & Bauer's RotaJet digital press has been named a 'winner' in this year's German Design Awards.

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.

Installation of a used M600 heatset press in Mumbai is a breakthrough for manroland Goss web systems India in collaboration with GWS.

A reconfigured M600 commercial press has been kitted out with LED UV drying in a project for a Mauritius-based printing company.

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.

Printing and telecommunications equipment which charts much of the history of the industry comes under the hammer in Melbourne at the end of this month.

New Zealand's two historic Cossar presses are in limbo after hopes of housing them in a new museum were abandoned.

What did Gutenberg's first wooden printing press look like? An impression of the print pioneer's 1436 original is helping raise funds for a Sydney museum.