CCI + Adobe = N.Y. Times, Boston Globe

Adopting Adobe InDesign as a crucial component, CCI Europe Inc. has announced that it would implement its CCI NewsDesk at three New York Times Co. papers: the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in central Massachusetts.

The companies did not give financial details for the agreement, but analysts valued the deal at more than $150 million.

It has been reported that the New York installation will include 775 workstations supporting more than 1200 editorial users, while the Boston installation will have 275 workstations.

The Globe recently installed a writing system developed by NewsEngin Inc. of Narberth, Pa., but apparently it will not abandon the NewsEngin system -- CCI workstations will only be used by editors and designers.

Reports indicate the Worcester paper will have 170 workstations for writing, editing and design.

CCI Europe, the Danish company with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., said in a press release that the Times Co. deal represented "more than 1000 concurrent seats."

The supplier also said it will work closely with the Times Co. and Adobe to develop a "close integration of Adobe InDesign with CCI NewsDesk." The company said the integration will allow designers to participate in its full editorial workflow while using the InDesign page layout application.

CCI said implementation is scheduled to begin in "late 2002."

CCI Europe Inc., (770) 420-1101, e-mail: edeasely@mindspring.com.

-- dmc

Cost-cutting congress

The 55th World Newspaper Congress, Ninth World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2002 will be held May 26-29 in Bruges, Belgium.

The sessions will focus on cost-cutting, the search for more operational efficiencies, and the identification and exploitation of new revenue streams.

Congress highlights include presentations by Zimbabwean Editor Geoffrey Nyarota; Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics; Ben Knapen, board member of PCM Uitgevers, the Netherlands publisher that closed its core Internet activities claiming that the Web cannibalized its newspapers' revenues; New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.; Erkki Liikanen, president of the European Newspaper Publishers Association; Dominique Alduy, managing director of the French newspaper Le Monde ; James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank Group, and Steven Weaver, president and publisher of Florida's Tampa Tribune.

The Paris-based WAN, the global organization for the newspaper industry, represents 18,000 newspapers. Its membership includes 71 national newspaper associations, individual newspaper executives in 93 countries, 14 news agencies, and seven regional and world-wide press groups.

World Association of Newspapers, {011} (33-1) 47 42 85 00, e-mail: contact_us@wan.asso.fr.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"The first and most common spam prevention advice is to educate employees with regards to proper e-mail user behavior. This is like telling someone that learning to swim will be helpful in the event of a tsunami."
-- J. William Gurley, Above The Crowd e-mail newsletter

Operations operatives: At the Boston Globe, Gregory Thornton has been named senior vice president of employee relations and operations; previously Thornton was vice president of employee relations. In earlier lives, Thornton had been in employee relations for the New York Daily News and Gannett Co. Inc. when it was headquartered in Rochester, N.Y. ... At California's Fresno Bee, Jeff Gledhill has been named vice president of operations; previously Gledhill had been production manager. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Gledhill joined the Bee in 1998 as pre-press manager. ... At the San Francisco Chronicle, Director of News Operations Dave Hyams has left the paper. Hyams started with the Chronicle on the copy desk in 1972 and rose to become news editor as well as sports editor (a job he held in tandem with his operations duties in 2000-2001). "I hope that at least somebody here lives long enough to see a pagination system," Hyams wrote in his farewell note to the staff. ...

New media mavens: At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Terrie Robbins has been named general manager of STLtoday.com, the paper's on-line arm. She had been vice president and director of marketing since 1997 at the paper and previously held several marketing positions with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. ... At Media General Inc. of Richmond, Va., Phil Harris has been named vice president of the interactive division. Most recently Harris had been director of Internet business development at the E.W. Scripps Co., having joined Scripps in 1995 as director of interactive media for the company's Naples Daily News in Florida. ...

Colorful career: At Cmyk University of Millersburg, Pa., Joan Phillips has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer. Most recently Phillips was pre-press technology manager at the Newspaper Association of America of Vienna, Va.; she also has done time at the Associated Press, Agfa Corp., Pre-Press Solutions and Kodak. Cmyk University is the two-year-old pre-press, press and quality school for newspapers and commercial printers that is the only working printing laboratory in the United States equipped with two shaftless printing towers. ...

Vendor vicissitudes: At AdStar Inc. of Marina del Rey, Calif., Stephen Zelnick and Corey Shaker have been named to the board of directors. Zelnick is a partner in a New York City law firm, while Shaker is chief executive of Hometown Auto Retailers Inc. of Watertown, Conn. ... At CareerBuilder Inc. (formerly of Reston, Va., now relocating to Chicago), Robert Montgomery has been named chief executive officer. Most recently Montgomery was chief executive of HeadHunter.net, which was acquired by CareerBuilder last fall. Also at CareerBuilder, Matt Ferguson has been named chief operating officer and Mary Delaney has been named chief sales officer; they too held similar titles at HeadHunter.net. CareerBuilder is jointly owned by Chicago's Tribune Co. and Knight Ridder of San Jose. ... At Digital Technology International of Springville, Utah, Jeff Carpenter has been named chief operating officer. Carpenter takes over the COO duties from Jo Ann Froelich, who remains the company's president, focusing on her role as managing director of the company's European operations. Carpenter most recently was vice president of business services; he has been with the company almost a decade in a variety of roles and has a 20-year history in the publishing business (he's been a typesetter and a pressman). Also at DTI, Kirk Smith has been named customer service manager, Ray Ragone has been appointed editorial operations manager and Louise Ragone has been designated advertising operations manager. Smith is also a 10-year DTI veteran and most recently was editorial product release manager. Ray Ragone is a longtime newspaperman with stints at The Advertiser-Democrat in Norway, Maine, and Florida's St. Petersburg Times; most recently he was DTI's director of editorial training. Louise Ragone, a veteran newspaper sales executive, most recently was DTI's director of advertising training. ... At Kodak Polychrome Graphics of Norwalk, Conn., two new dealer relations managers have been appointed. Pat Duckworth, a 20-year KPG veteran, has been named dealer relations manager for the eastern zone. Mike Huff, who has spent 19 years of a 27-year career with KPG, will be the new dealer relations manager for the western zone. ... At LDR International of Portland, Ore., Robin Michalisko has been named manager for direct hardware and software sales in the western United States and channel support nationwide. Most recently with Ikon North America, Michalisko has also been with PrintBid.com and RR Donnelley & Sons; in an earlier life Michalisko taught digital printing, pre-press design and other printing subjects at the University of Oregon. ... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Larry Terpstra has been named district sales manager for the Pacific Northwest; he will be based in Spokane, Wash. Most recently Terpstra was with FileFlow; earlier he had been with AM International and Prepress Solutions. ... At Presstek Inc. of Hudson, N.H., Edward Marino has been named president and chief executive officer. Most recently with Lightning Source Inc., Marino has also been a top executive with Danka Services and Eastman Kodak. Marino replaces Robert Hallman, who remains on the company's board of directors. ...

Confabs: "Implementing, Automating and Adopting Customer Relationship Management (CRM)" is a two-day seminar scheduled for April 17-18 in Chicago. Seminar leader George Henderson has developed a set of processes to deliver CRM into businesses. For more information call (978) 470-3933 or e-mail cats@dci.com. ... The Technical Association of the Graphic Arts will hold its annual meeting, Taga 2002, April 14-17 in Asheville, N.C. For more information, call (585) 475-7470. ... Dynamic Graphics Inc. sponsors "Managing Creative Services" April 15-16 in Chicago. For more information, call DG at (309) 688-8800 or e-mail service@dgusa.com. ... The Eighth Annual University of Virginia and Library of Congress Seminar, "Publishing in the 21st Century -- Blue Sky to Black Ink: The Successful Alliance of Electronic and Print Publishing," will be April 18-20 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The keynote speaker will be Laurence Kirshbaum of AOL Time Warner Book Group. Topics will include "Ownership, Control and Enforcement: A Tough Look at Managing Rights" and "Convergence of Print and Online Publishing." For more information, call (800) 346-3882. ... The Newspaper Association of America's annual convention will be held April 28-May 1 in New Orleans. For more information, call (703) 902-1794. ... The Creo Users Conference will be May 1-4 in Burnaby, British Columbia. Session topics will include "ROI on Reinvesting in Workflow: What are the Key Decisions?," "Color Management: Is It Hi-Art of Manufacturing?," "Storage Archiving and Backup" and "Pre-press Tips and Tricks." For more information, contact the group atcua.hosting@creo.com. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, April 2002
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