The innaugurate social night of Ink & Beyond 2009 (sponsored by La Presse) showcased performances by live jazz musicians and a veteran Cirque du Soleil singing contornionist.
When you set out to tell a story, choosing the right medium can make all the difference. This was the key take-away in a talk by Michael Roberts, deputy managing editor of staff development at The Arizona Republic. As the keynote speaker at the presidents’ luncheon at Ink & Beyond on Friday, Roberts said the [...]
A selection of photographs of the speakers and panellists at Ink & Beyond 2009.
Protecting and profiting from copyright online has never been easy. The vastness of the web and the lack of effective policing have hampered fledgling efforts to stop piracy. But there are signs that copyright law will soon be applied as fully online as in print, with publishers becoming increasingly aware of their rights and learning [...]
Ink & Beyond delegates were invited to take an exclusive tour of Transcontinental’s state-of-the-art Transmag newspaper printing facility. A recent $60-million investment in the Montreal facility on behalf of Transcontinental will significantly improve production speed and print quality.
It used to be that there was little to distinguish European and North American newspaper production. But today, with massive change sweeping through the industry, the two markets have begun to evolve apart. The layout of front-page news and the design of the newsroom, for example, have emerged in recent years as key differences in [...]
It’s a no-brainer that community newspapers need to jump on the social networking wagon. But the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of this leap are less obvious. Expert Dr. Susan Karol, executive director of the Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation addressed these questions at one of Ink & Beyond’s Thursday afternoon sessions titled Social networking: Best of [...]
If there is one thing to take away from Ink & Beyond’s Thursday morning session, An International Perspective: If It’s Thursday This Must Be Sweden, it’s this: It’s all about the eyeballs. With the cost of running a media organization growing even as circulation shrinks, speaker Theo Blanco, senior sales and marketing director for Sweden’s [...]
A conversation with Donna Logan, president of the Canadian Media Research Consortium, about where things stand in the media industry.
Andrew Casey, vice president of government relations of the Forest Products Association of Canada and Marlo Raynolds, executive director of the Pembina Institute, discuss whether reading the print edition of newspapers is an environmental hazard.
