The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have protested to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych against the attacks by security services on at least 47 journalists who are covering pro-European Union protests around Kiev.
The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) has refinanced its debt with a new $275 million senior secured credit facility.
The New York Times today launched on Google Play Newsstand, Google’s news reader app for Android phones and tablets offering newspapers, magazines, blogs and other sites. Users of Newsstand will have access to the latest news and award-winning journalism of The New York Times, designed and formatted for optimal reading on Android tablets and phones.
Despite the popular uprisings and their promise of more freedom, the Arab world is not getting the independent media information it needs and deserves, media professionals from across the region said at the annual Arab Free Press Forum in Tunisia on Monday (25 November).
Editors and publishers, education specialists, foundation and government officials will gather in Warsaw, Poland, next month to examine an issue that his been a major challenge for news media and is essential to their future: how to attract young people to news when there is so much competition for their attention.
The Neue Presse Verlags-GmbH is a daily newspaper publisher located in Passau. The NPV-Group publishes the “Passauer Neue Presse”, as well as 15 further local editions. Next to their dailies they also publish two free papers “Am Sonntag” and “Pressekurier”. With their local editions PNP has a daily outreach of over 437,000 readers in Bavaria. Due to their participations in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic the Verlagsgruppe Passau is one of the biggest publishers of regional daily newspapers in Europe. Each week they reach more than 10 million readers with a circulation of 6.1 million issues. The publishing group employs more than 3,700 people. The geographical range encompasses far more than the 1000 kilometres from Altötting up to Gdansk.
The world’s largest heatset commercial press from manroland web systems began operation on schedule at Kraft-Schlötels, part of the WKS Druckholding Group, in Wassenberg, Germany.
