Tag: newspapers

News & Publishing, Printing and Imaging

Lean Manufacturing: Doing More with Less in the Pressroom

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By Gretchen A. Peck

Efficiency is precisely why Dow Jones & Company, Inc. prints The Wall Street Journal at strategic points across the nation. The obvious benefit is that it “gets the Journal closer to our customers,” according to vice president of production Larry Hoffman. There was a time when the publisher operated its own printing plants — 17 back then — but today it relies more heavily on print suppliers, bringing the total number of sites printing The Wall Street Journal (and a mounting volume of commercial print) to 26, Hoffman said.

Read more at: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/doing-more-with-less-in-the-pressroom/

Published by Editor & Publisher magazine, May 2014

News & Publishing

News on the Move: Mobile Apps

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There’s a scene in filmmaker Chris Foster’s Black & White and Dead All Over — a documentary that chronicles the painful gutting of the newspaper industry, our raw and recent past, when newspersons offer perspective narration about the advent of digital publishing. “Lemmings” is how one hard-nosed journalist refers to publishers at that moment in time when they heavily invested resources into design and deployment of their website, and as another pointed out, without any clear vision or understanding of the business models.

And, so here we are again, faced with the challenge of a new publishing model — mobile — and all the dilemmas associated with devices and content and advertising, oh my!

Read more at: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/news-on-the-move-mobile-apps/

Published by Editor & Publisher magazine, April 2014

News & Publishing

Igniting the Base: Reimagining Circulation

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By Gretchen A. Peck

Circulation, as a newspaper organization discipline, is so much more complex now than it was even 20 years ago, when the Internet and digital media were in their infancy. The roles and responsibilities have changed, and the skills that the new breed of circulation professional must possess are diverse, dynamic, and often data-driven.

Read more at: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/igniting-the-base-reimagining-circulation/

Publishing by Editor & Publisher magazine, March 2014

News & Publishing

Des Moines is fertile ground for publishing

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By Gretchen A. Peck

David Byrne of Talking Heads fame recently passed through Des Moines, Iowa for the 80/35 Music Festival. He wrote about his time there-the bucolic setting, the public spaces, restaurants, the library, and a visit to the local bike shop. “Life here seems to be more or less middle class (the middle class doesn’t seem to have been gutted here as it has been in many other towns), and there are amenities like the riverfront, bike trail networks, ball fields, and water sports that show that the city cares about its citizens,” Byrne opines in his blog.

Read more at: https://www.pubexec.com/article/fertile-ground-publishing/

Published July 2013, Publishing Executive magazine