Publishing schedule change

Traditionally The Cole Papers has devoted its June issue to a preview of NEXPO, with coverage of the annual summer trade show in the July and August numbers.

This year, NEXPO (formerly ANPA/Tec) is being held unusually late -- June 25-29, in Las Vegas. If we were to publish the NEXPO preview on our normal schedule, information about the trade show would be more than a month old when the show started.

So we have cast aside tradition in order to provide our readers the most up-to-date information. Our June issue will contain our customary high-quality problem-solving information and the July issue will address NEXPO -- with our distinctive color map to the convention floor and selected looks into key suppliers' booths.

The NEXPO preview issue will be mailed on June 15, giving the U.S. Postal Service 10 days to deliver it before the show's first day (more than 90 percent of our subscribers get their newsletters within four days of mailing).

The August and September issues, covering NEXPO and related news, will be mailed on our normal schedule -- usually the last Saturday of the previous month.

If you do not receive the July newsletter before you head for Las Vegas, worry not: You can call us at our suite at the Las Vegas Hilton (next to the convention hall) to get a copy of the preview issue, offer news tips or speak with one of our consultants.

-- dmc

Inside the insiders: The new team at Technology & Media Group Inc. (a division of Norman Pearlstine's Friday Holdings that will produce newsletters and other information vehicles about new media) includes John Eckhouse (formerly of the San Francisco Chronicle), Janice Maloney and Amy Johns (both former editors at Seybold's Digital Media) and Lawrence Fisher, a frequent contributor to the business pages of the New York Times . ... And in finally replacing Denise Caruso (who had left to start T&M Group) as editor of Digital Media, the Seybold and Ziff folks have picked Mitch Ratcliffe. Most recently a free-lancer, Ratcliffe was editor-at-large at Macweek and is the author of five books. ...

Company news: Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., has acquired Baseview Products Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The two companies said Baseview will "continue to operate under its own identity" and will remain in Michigan. Though Baseview will continue to sell products through its own sales and distribution systems, Harris sales people will now be able to offer solutions to smaller papers. In other Baseview news, the company now has a forum on America Online, where customers can dial in to get support and to network with other Baseview clients. ...

Design desk: The new member of the Society of Newspaper Design's board of directors is Karl Smith, the AME for graphics at the York (Pa.) Daily Record; he replaces Warren Watson, whose term expired. Other board members who were reappointed include Garry Fairbairn, editor of the Western Producer in Saskatoon, Sask., Canada; Juan Antonio Giner, professor at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Roger Holtman, deputy managing editor of the Roanoke (Va.) Times and World-News; Ed Kohorst, design editor of the Dallas Morning News, and Patty Reksten, associate professor at the University of Montana, Missoula. ...

Confabs: MacWorld Washington will be in the nation's capitol May 10-12; call (508) 879-6700 for the MacDetails. ... The National Online Meeting will be May 10-12 in New York for on-line and CD-ROM technologists; go on-line telephonically at (600) 654-6266 for the background. ... The annual Southern California graphic arts show -- the 22nd Gutenberg Festival -- will be held May 12-15 in Long Beach; call (714) 921-3120 to ask about the trade show and (805) 489-9020 for seminars that will be held concurrently. ... The 64th annual conference of the International Newspaper Marketing Association will be May 15-18 in Phoenix. Speakers include author Betty Friedan and Ray Gaulke, of the Public Relations Society of America. Call Inma at (214) 991-5900 for details. ... Folio: Spring will be May 16-19 in New York City. The sessions include titles such as "$2 Seps: The Photo CD in Production," "50 Ways to Turbocharge Electronic Production" and "Successful Linking: Mac to High End." Call (800) 927-5007 for more information. ... Ohio State University is sponsoring a two-day Quark XPress seminar May 21-22 in Columbus to be led by Consultant Neil Chase. Call the school at (614) 292-8571 for the express details. ... The Graphic Communications Association's Color Connections 7 Conference will be held May 23-27 in New York. The three major events will include professional workshops and training programs, the Color Connections Conference, and the Color Connections Product Demonstrations and Exhibits. For more information, call GCA at (703) 519-8160. ... For the non-Quarkophiles in the group, the PageMaker Conference will be held June 2-3 in Seattle. Call (206) 285-0305 for Aldus details. ... Seybold Digital World will be June 6-8 in Los Angeles. Call the new Ziff-Davis Exposition and Conference Co. at (415) 578-6900 for the digital details. And if you're in Paris June 8-10, you can go to the Seybold Electronic Publishing Conference; the same number applies. ... #

"Anything but newspapers! Both my parents were in the newspaper business, as well as my grandparents going back two generations. When I was a kid, I always swore I'd never work for a newspaper. Now I realize radio isn't a whole lot different."
-- Roger Coryell, a disc jockey at San Francisco radio station KKSF, when asked what he'd do if he weren't in radio.

From THE COLE PAPERS, May 1994, Copyright (c) 1994, All Rights Reserved.