Ahead of this week's Ifra Expo, we're at the Berlin office of Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, learning that print newspapers are not in decline, but doing all right, even thriving.

Organisers say more than 19,000 trade visitors from 58 countries attended this year's Pack Print International trade show in Bangkok.

A technical collaboration will see Manugraph build a new Seiken-designed 4x1 newspaper press at its Kolhapur factory.

Indian publishers were prolific winners in WAN-Ifra's 2019 Print Innovation Awards, winners of which were announced today.

Staff at News Corp Australia's Westgate Park print centre have been given details of the project that will see new all-colour presses and mailroom equipment installed at a new greenfield site in the city.

Australian Michael Condon - who led the pioneering transition of Dubai's Gulf News to waterless production - has retired to his home in Ballarat.

Director of Australia's new Judith Nielson Institute Mark Ryan has called on journalists to quit "mean spirited" sniping at colleagues on rival publications.

With industry consolidation, news industry conferences have become scarcer in Australia, and time is money, especially when it's the boss who's paying for your day away from the office.

It was by any measure, a very good night for News Corp Australia and its brands.

Mind over matter is securing a bright future for Singapore Press Holdings, despite the decline of print.

Anthony Catalano has drawn on his extensive knowledge of real estate marketing and taken out a rival with the acquisition of a Bendigo freesheet.

India's printed newspaper success story isn't easily translated into advertising sales, delegates at the WAN-Ifra India 2019 conference heard.

It was a throwaway line Expressen TV editor-in-chief Thomas Mattsson tells me he thought of at the last moment, but it resonated: "Text will be the new print," he said.

Check Kahwa Coffee online and you'll see live entertainment in its offering. But it's a live video service that has been attracting attention from the newsmedia industry.

Millions of Australians are catching a Quicky on the way to work, the intimate smart podcast helping make Mamamia the country's largest female-focussed independent website.

Seven West Media's Jeremy Brown is among speakers at Brightcove's Play19 event in Boston in May.

As news gets more competitive for publishers and broadcasters, Australia's Network 10 has unveiled a new news set with a nine by 2.4 metre screen, believed to be the country's largest.

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

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.

The theory and practise of artificial intelligence came under the microscope when a panel at WAN-Ifra's Berlin Publishing Days discussed the 'coolness' of AI and how it had been thought to be the answer to most human problems...

We all know the story about the boss loving the product so much he bought the company: Ifra World Publishing Expo delegates heard a new take on it.

A strategy of putting readers first is paying dividends for the venerable news magazine The Economist, described as a "views paper not a newspaper" by circulation head, Marina Haydn.

Newspaper fan Klay Thompson had fans queuing to buy newspaper subscriptions as part of a promotion based on limited edition shoes.

Publishing giant ABP has been sweet-talking readers in a campaign which delivers the cha and the chitchat without the sugar.

Newsbrands continue to grow in effectiveness and act as an amplifier to other media in multimedia campaigns, according to a study of IPA Databank cases.

Protecmedia has appointed advertisement and circulation business unit director Alejandro Lorenzo its new chief executive, ahead of Manuel Fernando Gómez-Carpintero's retirement.

Newsrooms in India are light on skills and technology, according to a new report.

America's News Media Alliance has produced an infographic to show readers the effect of Google's Incognito browser.

A call by Australia's competition regulator for "significant, holistic reform" to address the market power of Google and Facebook has been welcomed for its "determination" and "strength of language".

Australian supermarket chain Woolworths - which publishes one of the country's highest-circulation print magazines - is to use customer data to target them through billboards.

The investment and "competitive swagger" of Jeff Bezos' Washington Post were recognised when it was named best news website In WAN-Ifra's North American Digital Media Awards.

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.

A KBA Colora installed for joint venture Borås Tidning Tryckeri in 2002 is being upgraded as one of the original partners regains ownership of its Viared printshop.

A hybrid press - including units dating to more than three decades ago - will be only the third in France to install QI Press Controls closed-loop colour system.

Persgroep Printing in Best is taking the opportunity of a colour registration upgrade to modernise all the control systems on its three Wifag Evolution OF 375S presses.

A thoroughly contemporary approach to publishing underpins newspaper production in the fast-growing Florida city of The Villages.

Even allowing for the delays caused by last August's devastating floods, this month's commissioning of a new plant in Kozhikode is just one more milestone for Kerala giant Mathrubhumi.

The second 4x1 Cromoman press in Kolkata is now fully operational, delivering top quality in less-than-ideal local conditions.

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.

A new zero speed splicer combined with a splicer unwinder is among new offerings for inkjet printers being released by peripheral maker Tecnau.

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.

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.

Vibrant print samples from a demonstration of LED-UV curing technology are included in a new 'look-book'.

Incoming chief executive of Contiweb Rutger Jansen has one piece of advice for heatset web printers: Get into offset packaging.

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.

The resolution is terrible but the typography is engaging.

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.