Vendors and advocacy organizations serving the newspaper and
print industries have released updates on their status during the COVID-19
crisis. Here are some of the updates that reflect moves across the industries.
• Facebook on
March 30 announced an additional $100 million
investment to support the news industry — $25 million in emergency grant
funding for local news through the Facebook Journalism Project, and $75 million
in additional marketing spend to move money over to news organizations around
the world.
• The News
Media Alliance and America ’s Newspapers put out a
joint letter on “the role the federal government can play in ensuring the
survival of the vital services that local news publishers like you provide for
our nation.” The letter is addressed to President Trump, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Access it here.
• The News Media Alliance
has a running update on news publishers being deemed
“essential” businesses as states announce public orders.
• In response
to the COVID-19 outbreak, Rayonier Advanced Materials announced curtailed
production at seven Canadian locations. Starting this week, the company will
cease or reduce operations at all softwood sawmills located in Ontario and
Quebec as well as halt production at the company’s newsprint plant in
Kapuskasing, Ontario. These curtailments will last at least two weeks and may
go longer. Existing sales orders will continue to be fulfilled from current
inventory and reduced production at the Kapuskasing sawmill. All other facilities
are expected to operate at normal levels.
• Fujifilm’s
business units focused on the commercial, sign and display, packaging and
industrial print segments remain committed to continuing support of these
businesses, in accordance with government directives, said an update from
Fujifilm.“We have implemented necessary steps to support our employees who can
work from home and have instituted additional safety protections for those
employees whose work must be performed on-site.”
• technotrans
America (tta) says it’s conducting business normally regarding equipment sales,
parts sales, equipment repair and hotline support. However, “our capacity to
conduct field work has been reduced. We will try to minimize any disruption to
our customer's schedules. We ask for your patience in this rapidly-developing
situation,” said a note from tta.
• A note to customers fromThe Siebold
Company said, “To ensure the safety of our parts customers, we sanitize all
parts and components prior to shipment. We suggest when you receive shipments
from us, your receiving personnel use best practices to sanitize all incoming
shipments including hand washing before and after unpacking the
shipment. We have adopted this same procedure for all incoming deliveries
received at our facilities.”
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