After just a day's Senate hearings, both the Coalition government and Labor have decided there is no need for an Australian royal commission into media diversity.
Rupert Murdoch doesn't tell Australian editors what to write, but many get opportunities to learn what he thinks, senators learned today.
WAN-Ifra's global president has written to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi urging an end to legal actions he says "threaten to undermine press freedom".
Having moved back the US to be closer to her family, Mary-Katharine Phillips has joined the News Leaders Association.
Australian media owners' lobby group ThinkNewsBrands has announced the appointment of Vanessa Lyons as general manager.
Australia's mandatory bargaining code has passed through both parliamentary houses and is expected to get its final nod today.
Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has signed a preliminary agreement with Facebook, making it the first media company to do so since the social media giant restarted news content on its site yesterday.
A further loss of trust in Australia's 'traditional' media from 56 to 53 per cent left the country with no trusted information source, according to this year's Edelman Trust Barometer.
In the ongoing battle between traditional media and Big Tech, one skirmish was apparently resolved last night, while another took a new turn.
Having driven the country's mandatory code legislation in the first place, News Corp has held out for a global deal covering Australia as well as the UK and US.
Comparisons are odious but inevitable with publication of Ive Group's and Ovato's half-year results.
DRUPA organisers say a conference programme is planned before the digital preview platform makes way for virtual.drupa.
Press and equipment maker Heidelberg is selling its futuristic Print Media Academy, while its sale of finishing systems subsidiary Gallus appears to have fallen through.
That it's been "the best-kept secret without actually being a secret" is a measure of how well DIC Australia's closure of news ink production in the country has been managed.
Two traditional print brands are finding growth with the trend towards electric-powered transport.
German regional publisher Presse-Druck und Verlags is upgrading planning and management software technology at its plant in Augsburg.
Contractor ABB - with whom the printing customer has a 30-year relationship - says the update will provide greater operator insights, create virtualisation of processes and reduce maintenance.
The plant processes 25,000 tons of paper and 350 tons of colour ink a year, so automated components in the facility must work seamlessly. Regional newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine has a daily print-run of more than 350,000 copies.
ABB will install its MPS Cockpit for planning and management of the entire production process, MPS Insight for process reporting and analysis and MPS InsertManager to support and coordinate of sales, production planning, storage and distribution of newspaper inserts.
The tools will assist operators and create virtualisation of the system to run with PostgreSQL, allowing independence from the hardware and operating system lifecycle. This enables the application to be tested on and moved to a new platform when required.
Presse-Druck und Verlags technical director Andreas Ullmann says the updates ensure a modern, fit-for-purpose infrastructure for printing the newspaper titles and for economically managing the entire manufacturing process from editorial to the reader's letterbox. "From working with ABB over many years, we are confident this system will provide the robust platform we now require, with security and backup built in," he said.
ABB head of printing Damian Staedeli says having worked with printing companies for several decades, ABB was committed to production optimisation in the industry. "We use lessons learned from across our diverse global range of industry applications to make these key improvements."
The MPS software systems will provide greater functionality for managing printing processes and for optimising the print process. Europe currently has ABB's largest installed base for printing customers, followed by the USA.
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