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The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), FTI Consulting and Google have announced the launch of the APAC GNI Subscriptions Lab at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Leaders eSummit. The Lab is an intensive 4-month program to help eight different news publishers from the Asia-Pacific region strengthen digital subscription capabilities and grow reader revenue. Interested publishers can apply here until 7 August 2020. (Editor’s note: Elsewhere the date is given as 14 August 2020 – see below.) The program is an Asian Pacific expansion of GNI Subscriptions Labs in North America, Latin America and Europe and is part of the Google News Initiative (GNI) which provides products, partnership and training to help the news industry succeed in the digital age. The APAC GNI Subscriptions Lab is being developed in partnership with FTI Consulting and WAN-IFRA and draws on FTI Consulting’s expertise in helping global news publishers develop successful digital subscription businesses, Google’s resour...

In addition to the general investment restraint on the part of many customers in the corona crisis, travel bans, lockdowns, and other restrictions significantly affected the business figures of the Koenig & Bauer group in the first half of 2020. The restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic particularly impeded deliveries of the presses to the international customers as well as the worldwide deployment of the assembly staff and service technicians. At €480.2 million, orders were 16.2% lower than in the previous year, although this was better than the sector trend for printing presses published by industry association VDMA. At €404.5 million, revenue fell short of the previous year by 20.1%. On the cost side, massive measures were taken to address the effects of the crisis, introducing short-time working from 1 April 2020 alongside other steps. EBIT improved substantially from -€34.9 million in Q1 to -€6 million in Q2. For the first half of the year, EBIT was -€40.9 million afte...

Yesterday afternoon (28 July 2020), we had a telephone conversation with Ferdinand Rueesch, the anchor shareholder and member of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberg and Thomas Fichtl, the head of Corporate Public Relations and press officer at Heidelberg. As most industry mavens know, Rueesch sold his remaining majority shares in Gallus to Heidelberg in 2014 in exchange for Heidelberg shares that make him, with approximately 9% of the shareholding, the largest individual stakeholder in the company. He became, from that time, what is described as an ‘anchor shareholder.’ As a member of the Heidelberg board, he maintained his deep links with the label industry in a role that looked after key Gallus Group accounts. The Gallus Group holding has just been acquired by benpac , a family-owned Swiss company. Rueesch will remain on the board of Heidelberg and as an anchor shareholder. With Gallus, he will be responsible for the key accounts as before. We asked Fichtl and Ruesch when t...

Wan-Ifra India organized a series of training programs for digital journalism that I was privileged to take part in. The sessions were held between 27 May and 2 July 2020 as part of the Wan-Ifra Facebook journalism project. I am not a Facebook person, and one could also say that I am over the hill. Nevertheless, I am interested as a journalist, editor, and B2B publisher in digital news media since part of my job is to write about technology changes in news media. And there is no better way to write about change than to engage in it if one can.  We often have to describe and explain technology from afar, from press releases and visits to demonstrations, but digital journalism is something we have to do every day. There is no escape from it, so why not learn to do it correctly? Or at least better. The days of just doing your copy and handing it over to someone else are over. The days of only wearing one hat are over.  To compete or survive in the modern news media...

Heidelberg has diversified and set up a dedicated business unit for the industrial development, manufacture, and sale of printed and organic electronics. The company has also started production at its Wiesloch-Walldorf site, investing some five million Euros in a complete production line for printed sensors. Sensors developed at the InnovationLab (iL) in Heidelberg for use in dental technology are set to be printed first. These innovative printed sensors make it possible, for the first time, to record the distribution of masticatory pressure during occlusion digitally, that is to say, when the upper and lower jaws come together. The 3D visualization on a tablet and data archiving enables malocclusions to be identified and subsequently corrected. Looking further ahead, Heidelberg is to use state-of-the-art printing technology at its high-tech campus to produce sensors for other digital applications – in particular in healthcare and logistics and also in the retail and automo...