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NZ’s half-year of heartbreak as change and closures hit

Jun 12, 2024 at 10:20 am by admin

In what seems a little like a house of cards, rolling change has impacted a succession of New Zealand newsmedia outlets already this year, most conspicuously at the previously.... Read More

Rod Kirkpatrick: Print mirror of change

Dec 08, 2014 at 12:01 am by Staff

When the first Whyalla newspaper, the Whyalla News, was published in 1940, it was launched by a local printer but printed 76km away at Port Augusta, at the northernmost tip of.... Read More

Peter Coleman: Melbourne auction brings flood of memories

Nov 13, 2019 at 05:22 pm by Staff

Don't get me started on printing history. The catalogue of this month's Melbourne Museum of Printing auction draws memories like adrenalin. Not that I go back to when Gutenber.... Read More

Not quite: The year that letterpress newspapers (almost) died

Jan 16, 2024 at 10:36 am by admin

That day in 1959 Don McLean immortalised as the one ‘the music died’ lives on, but 2023’s place in history as ‘the year letterpress newspapers died&rsq.... Read More

Tools for a print revival

Sep 18, 2015 at 01:09 pm by Staff

As you do, I heard last week from someone who wanted to print a newspaper (writes Peter Coleman).In Italy, it seemed - I put him in touch with hybrid offset-and-digital specia.... Read More