Custom integration of CTP with Multi-Format triple width
printing press at Great West Newspapers. Press design concept and Project
management by Web Offset Services
Friday, June 28, 2019
Friday Morning in the Blogosphere
Dayton, Nevada
First, let's kill all the newspapers! - Asheboro Courier Tribune
Newspapers are daily memorial to fallen journalists - Tribune-Review
A year after newsroom attack, journalists embraced by city - AP News
Hip hip hooray for hometown newspapers - White Mountain Independent
Bustle Digital Group Buys Nylon Magazine, Plans to Relaunch Print - Folio
How Magazine Publishers Are Cutting Print Costs to Improve Profits - Folio
Sale of Standard and Independent stakes to Saudi investor investigated - The Guardian
How The Wall Street Journal Turned User Data Into a Strategy to Keep Subscribers - NL
Jamal Khashoggi Warned Moroccan Journalist Before His Arrest, Says Wife - The Guardian
Chicago Tribune to rejuvenate Ferag system
Electronic Design Group has announced a recent contract
with The Chicago Tribune for the rejuvenation of the Tribune’s 23 Ferag stacker
infeed assemblies (SIA).
The order comes a year after EDG upgraded the
Tribune’s 15 SCC-USA conveyors.
The SIA solution is designed to address the
reoccurring theme of obsolescence by replacing the controls and drives in the
system, Electronic Design Group says. The upgrade involves a full transplant of
the control cabinets where the PLC, drive and auxiliary components are housed.
With the addition of a touch screen at each SIA, mounted in the cabinet door,
the equipment status is always known, resulting in more uptime, according to
Electronic Design Group.
Like the Ferag conveyors, the SIAs are
networked over ethernet, along with the conveyors.
Today in Labor History June 28th
This date marked the birthday of machinist Matthew Maguire, who many believe first suggested Labor Day. Others believe it was Peter McGuire, a carpenter. – 1850
President Grover Cleveland signed legislation declaring Labor Day an official US holiday. – 1894
The federal government sued the Teamsters to force reforms on the union, the nation’s largest. The following March, the government and the union signed a consent decree requiring direct election of the union’s president and creation of an Independent Review Board. – 1988
Thursday, June 27, 2019
U.K.’s JPI Media closing publications
To be closed are paid-for weeklies the Morley Observer and
Advertiser, Epworth Bells, Tyrone Times, Hawick News and Selkirk Weekend
Advertiser. Also to be closed are the free Worthing Advertiser, Glasgow South
and Eastwood Extra, Hayling Islander, Portsmouth View and Wharfe Valley Times.
The closings come on the heels of recent confirmation of the
closings of U.K.
JPIMedia says no jobs will be lost
with the latest closings, according to HoldtheFrontPageNews and Tech
Ebony, Jet cutting employees; archive to be auctioned
Ebony and Jet magazines are cutting the editorial
employees that remain at the publications, the New York Post reported.
The company did not make payroll in May, the Post says.
Seven employees have lost jobs, the paper
reported.
Austin, Texas-based Clear View Group, a
private equity firm, bought the publications from Johnson Publishing in 2016.
Both Ebony and Jet had previously abandoned their print editions and were
solely digital.
Meanwhile, photos from the Ebony magazine
archives are set to be auctioned off in July, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Included in the archives are well-known
pictures of Emmett Till, Malcolm X and others.
Multi-Format triple width printing press running 4 section newspaper
New Multi-Format triple width press installation at Great
West Newspapers showing press quiet room and CTP integration into building and
6 section newspaper running at maximum 40,000 revolutions on custom designed
Multi-Format KBA Hybrid press using 2 of 3 formers (running collect). Press can
run 2 across, 4 across and 6 across formats in product size widths (or tab
heights) from 10" to 16.5" and all sizes between with complete
automated changeovers. Magazine formats also possible. Press design concept and
Project management by Web Offset Services.
GWS, manroland Goss serve Egyptian printer
Modern Arab Establishment for Printing and Publishing,
with headquarters in Cairo , Egypt , is getting a used Rotoman press that will
be moved from Germany to Egypt , according to manroland Goss,
headquartered in Augsburg , Germany
Modern Arab is known as the oldest private
printing company in Egypt
The installation of the press is scheduled to
take place by the end of summer. The dismantling of the press was carried out
by a joint team of technicians provided by the client, manroland Goss and a GWS
supervisor. The technical project management has been in the hands of manroland
Goss and GWS as well.
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
Rest stop near June Lake
Parent company of Athens newspapers adds to its family - Athens NEWS
The Washington Post to launch Spanish-language podcast - Washington Post
Bill introduced in Congress to establish memorial for fallen journalists - WTOP
The Audience in the Mind’s Eye: How Journalists Imagine Their Readers - CJR
Second Florida City Pays Up Following Ransomware Attack - Bank Info Security
Tribune Publishing (NASDAQ:TPCO) Upgraded at Zacks Investment - Rockland Registe
Company-wide moment of silence planned to mark 1 year since Capital Gazette slayings - CT
The Death of a Ludicrously Local, Incredibly Essential Newspaper - Washington Post Magazine
The Storied History of the Black Press: 'The Pillars of Black America's Struggle - Amsterdam News
Justice Department sues to block Quad acquisition of LSC
The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit
June 20 seeking to block Wisconsin-based Quad/Graphics proposed acquisition of
Chicago-based LSC Communications.
DOJ filed the suit “to preserve competition in
the markets for magazine, catalog, and book printing services in the United States
The department filed its suit in the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The suit alleges that the transaction would
combine the only two significant providers of magazine, catalog, and book
printing services, denying publishers and retailers throughout the country the
benefits of competition that has spurred lower prices, improved quality and
greater printing output.
The all-stock acquisition was announced on
Oct. 31, 2018, and was approved by shareholders of both companies in February.
Quad said it intends to work together with LSC
to contest the DOJ’s allegations.
“The companies (Quad and LSC) believe that the
DOJ has reached the wrong conclusion in its assessment of the transaction and
LSC will join Quad in vigorously defending the lawsuit in court,” said a
statement from LSC.
Today in Labor History June 27th
Emma Goldman, women’s rights activist and radical, was born in Lithuania. She came to the US at age 17. – 1869
The Bureau of Labor, which will become the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), was established. Today, the BLS is a governmental agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data on employment, labor, and economics. – 1884
The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the “Wobblies,” the radical syndicalist union, was founded at Brand’s Hall, in Chicago, Illinois. The Wobblies advocated for industrial unionism, with all workers in a particular industry organized in the same union, as opposed by the trade unions typical today. The Wobblie motto was, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” – 1905
Congress passed the Wagner Act, authored by Senator Robert Wagner of New York. Also known as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the legislation created the structure for collective bargaining in the United States. – 1935
A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers, the first such walkout in 50 years, ended with a five-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains. – 1985
A.E. Staley locked out 763 workers in Decatur, Illinois. The lockout lasted two and one-half years. – 1993
In a 5-4 decision, a conservative Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Janus V AFSCME that fair share payments by public employees violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Free Speech. This decision allows people who disagree with paying fair share payments to the union can become freeloaders and get all the benefits of the union. – 2018
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Reading Eagle sale to close; more than 80 jobs to go
MediaNews Group’s purchase of the Reading Eagle Co. (Pennsylvania
MediaNews Group, which does business as
Digital First Media, is purchasing Reading Eagle for $5 million after the
Reading Eagle filed for Chapter 11 protection in March. MediaNews Group was the
only qualified bidder, the paper reports.
MediaNews Group has extended job offers to 125
staff members, and 111 have said yes to the offers, according to the paper.
In mid-June, Reading Eagle Co. had 195 staff
members, officials said, the paper reported. In March, the company had 236
full-time and 20 part-time workers, according to the paper.
A Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification,
or WARN, notice sent to the Pennsylvania state Department of Labor and Industry
said 81 employees would lose their jobs, but the figure is now 84, the company
said, according to the paper.
Reading Eagle Company has the Reading Eagle,
the South Schuylkill News, Pretzel City Productions and its printing subsidiary
REP, and WEEU 830 AM.
Pennsylvania-based Twilight Broadcasting is
buying WEEU's federal broadcasting license and will lease its broadcasting
facility and towers, according to Twilight General Manager Todd Adkins, the
Eagle reported.
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