More good news on the print edition front is that independent South Australian masthead The Border Watch is coming back after closing last month with the loss of 38 jobs.

Distance lends enchantment to the view, and there's a tendency for speakers to be more relaxed when they're half a world from home.

COVID challenges of working from home, being a woman in India's 'boys club'...

Views on from industry leaders continued through the opening day of WAN-Ifra's Indian Media Leaders eSummit, with views on advertising, an increasingly-digital future, and giving readers what they want.

A new paid-sale weekly is the latest ACM offering to fill the print void created by News Corp Australia's closures.

Put three executives who have committed their lives to journalism together in a room with a former TV anchor, and a frisson of rivalry, but most of all commitment shows through.

Two global webcasts - one on Singapore time discussing the pandemic, youth and the media - will celebrate Monday's World News Day.

Sinead Boucher, chief executive and owner of New Zealand's Stuff is among ten new directors on WAN-Ifra's supervisory board and four on its executive board.

As the winner of this year's WAN-Ifra Golden Pen of Freedom award, Jineth Bedoya Lima continues to fight for press freedom and justice for victims of sexual violence - starting with her own.

Nine Asia Pacific and south Asia 'rising stars' of news media are among the '30 Under 30' named in INMA's awards scheme with one, Utkarsh Arora, among the six grand prize winners.

A webcast featuring Anthony Fauci and Maria Ressa is among events to celebrate World News Day on September 28.

Having already postponed its World News Media Congress to September, WAN-Ifra has now said the event will not take place this year.

A lean team and a "can-do" attitude are helping a Norwegian publisher break new ground with video coverage.

Fairfax having brought its close relationship with Adobe to Nine Entertainment, the two are now to work together on a new data partnership.

Despite the large number of new services already launched, 70 per cent of viewers are still open to trying a new streaming service.

Streamed video now accounts for an average four hours and three minutes of every day, with the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on lives across the globe.

Regional communities losing their printed newspapers are not the only ones facing a deadline at the end of this month.

Broadcaster and podcaster Nicole Haack has partnered with Adelaide-based Solstice Media to create a new national podcasting and audio production agency.

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.

The traditional wisdom of there never being a second chance to create a first impression comes to mind with the comments of Diana Lucaci.

Readership and subscriber engagement have boomed for News Corp metro tabloid the Herald Sun, just as its audience has been going through the world's toughest lockdown.

News agency Reuters has told the story of its increasing use of drones to deliver images and footage, "going where journalists can't".

A new INMA report explains "why branded content fits today's advertising moment".

Almost a year after its initial implementation, this Indian weekend brand is celebrating the success of a new look and a new approach to content.

Executives at the Times of India looked to classified, one of the newspaper's oldest sections, as a way in which they could help tackle social issues for the LGBTQ community following the historic 2018 court decision.

Singapore Press Holdings has struck a deal to sell News Corp Australia's News Xtend marketing service to its customers in the island state.

A US law which protects "interactive computer services" such as Facebook and Google from liability for user posts is "a government license to build rage machines", NMA's David Chavern says.

Eight Asia Pacific publishers will take part in a Google-funded regional 'subscriptions lab', starting next month.

A startup investment company which has the Murdoch family as its largest common denominator, is adding the developer of a personal finance app that collects data to its investments.

With the end of the consultation period on Australia's News Media Bargaining Code tomorrow begins a confrontation with technology giants Google and Facebook.

Luke Manderson has returned to News in Australia after a spell at its New York headquarters and with Barron's Group.

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.

The flags are out at ImpressionsWorldwide's headquarters in Burlington, following an order from a printer in Indonesia.

Readers of News Corp's flagship The Australian have been given details of the new west Melbourne print site it is developing under a ten-year lease.

A Goss Metro with no four-highs is being upgraded with closed-loop registration and colour density in a new US project.

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.

Three companies and four digital print technologies are prominent in this year's InterTech technology awards.

If there's a digital newspaper printing opportunity that doesn't justify colour, a new monochrome Screen inkjet has it covered.

Kodak's new lower-cost Ultrastream inkjet technology has emerged in a new mid-market press for which speeds of 150 metres/minute is claimed.

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.

A 30-year-old manroland Lithoman heatset press is among plant for sale in Richmond, USA following the closure of the Cadmus printing plant there.

Delivered mid-March, just as COVID-19 was also arriving in the country, a sophisticated new manroland Goss Lithoman is just in production at Mercury Print Productions.

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.

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.

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.