The global summit meeting of the world’s newspaper industry opened Monday with a call for the host country Ukraine to live up to the promise of post-Soviet revolution to “regain freedoms that sustain democracy and human dignity.”
Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández was been awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, will be using the World Publishing Expo in Frankfurt to launch four completely new developments.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has called on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to take decisive action to guarantee freedom of expression in the country.
Newspaper executives from four countries were elected Sunday to the Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) during the organisation’s Annual General Meeting in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Nishinippon Shimbun, the widest read newspaper on Japan’s third largest island of Kyushu with a daily circulation of more than one million copies, recently ordered two Mitsubishi DIAMONDSPIRIT presses. The new presses will be installed in February 2013 and replace existing 16-year-old equipment at the publisher’s flagship plant in Fukuoka City, the largest city in Kyushu.
Hearst Newspapers announced today that Paul Farrell has been named group publisher of Hearst Connecticut Newspapers. The announcement was made by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Hearst Corporation, and Hearst Newspapers President Mark Aldam.
