Though not unexpected, it was the scale of China's move on Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai that may have caused surprise.

WAN-Ifra's Women in News leadership accelerator programme is underway in Vietnam, this time in a wholly-virtual format.

New digital technology is helping make reading printed newspapers possible longer for a Melbourne man who is already legally blind.

Australian Associated Press's AAP name and brand live on today, despite the earlier announcement of a new name for the national news agency.

While the Los Angeles Times powers ahead under new ownership, two much smaller but historic stablemates which closed in April have reappeared after changing hands.

As Victoria was this morning detailing the implications of new COVID-19 restrictions, a belief that the only way from here is up may be premature.

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

Where advertising is likely to go next after the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is the focus of a new INMA report.

As the order changes in Sydney, News Corp chief operating officer and INMA president Damian Eales is off to a new role in New York, restructuring the global giant at group level.

Australia's Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas is to bring the 20th Global Investigative Journalism Conference to Sydney next year.

The presentations are virtual, but the achievement is real as INMA presented its 2020 Global Media Awards overnight, curiously with the support of Google.

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...

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.

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.

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's a long road ahead if you compare - as they do at Schibsted - digital subscriptions with print ones.

Here's something you can't do with a digital screen: Splicing six double pages together, German tabloid BZ produced an infographic 2.35 metres long.

Newspapers in Australia's southern states which have battled floods, bushfires, COVID-19 and the economic downturn this year now face a new challenge: News Corp fighting them for their audience.

Australian expat Hamish Thompson has published his list of the most abused words and phrases from the tenth year of his Buzzsaw online tool.

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.

One customer's decision to switch vendor is promising what - iPhone apart - may become the biggest impact on photography since the advent of digital cameras.

Entries are open for this year's South Asian Digital Media Awards, organised by the regional association of WAN-Ifra.

Media companies such as News Corp and Nine will benefit from a new draft code of conduct for digital giants, but News' nemesis the ABC would be excluded.

Work-from-home case studies from McClatchy, Cox Media Group, WFPL and Skift are included in a new INMA report on its impact on newsrooms.

A curious situation is emerging with the possibility of two AAP successors competing with each other for Australia's wire service business.

INMA's chief executive Earl Wilkinson has penned a report on the advertising and data ramifications of the upcoming third-party cookie phaseout.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.