There was a touch of the royal 'we' when Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood - who is 64 next month - looked back on his seven-year tenure as head of the Australian publisher.

Big and disruptive ideas are in demand as part of a News Corp initiative to boost innovation.

With so many issues to resolve and questions to answer, Nine Entertainment chief Hugh Marks becomes the 'must hear' speaker at next month's Inform News Media Summit in Sydney.

By just over a couple of percentage points, Australia's Nine Entertainment is taking control of Fairfax Media in a 'merger' announced this morning.

Chief executive of Fairfax Media's NZ unit Stuff, Sinead Boucher has joined the speakers roster for the Inform News Media Summit in September.

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'.

There was a touch of the royal 'we' when Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood - who is 64 next month - looked back on his seven-year tenure as head of the Australian publisher.

Big and disruptive ideas are in demand as part of a News Corp initiative to boost innovation.

With so many issues to resolve and questions to answer, Nine Entertainment chief Hugh Marks becomes the 'must hear' speaker at next month's Inform News Media Summit in Sydney.

By just over a couple of percentage points, Australia's Nine Entertainment is taking control of Fairfax Media in a 'merger' announced this morning.

Chief executive of Fairfax Media's NZ unit Stuff, Sinead Boucher has joined the speakers roster for the Inform News Media Summit in September.

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'.

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.

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.

News Corp is backing print advertising with a marketing campaign which offers small businesses $1 million in advertising as prizes.

Signs that News Corp's partnership with Nine Entertainment is still progressing today with the announcement of new on-air host and executive appointments.

With the activities of Jack Ma's Hong Kong-based masthead always of interest, the return of South China Morning Post chief executive Gary Liu to Digital Media Asia will be a highlight.

Jack Ma's ecommerce giant Alibaba has bought into Chinese digital advertising company Focus Media with a minority stake valued at US$1.43 million.

Reworking of Nielsen's digital content ratings has brought further growth for subscriber publishers, but that's a group which does not include major players Fairfax and the BBC.

Swedish software company Infomaker has been added to the Newscycle family, giving the US-headquartered developer a stronger foothold in the Nordic market.

A UK study has shown that advertisements that appear in quality online environments are 42 per cent more cost effective.

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.

India dominates the upcoming 2018-2020 International Color Quality Club with ten of its biggest publishers enrolling for the programme.

Belgian-headquartered printer Coldset Printing Partners has begun a new programme of upgrades with orders for automation on presses including its new KBA Cortina.

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

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.

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.

Letterpress is back at New Zealand's Greymouth Star, 38 years after the newspaper abandoned hot-metal typesetting.