WAN releases new, emerging tech primer for print, digital publishing

PARIS: The newly released “A Publishers' Guide to New Technologies”, from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project, examines a wide variety of technologies for editorial, advertising, blogging, social networking, archiving, mobile publishing, pre-press and press automation, digital inkjet printing, research tools and much more. The report also includes examples and case studies of newspapers implementing new technologies - how VG in Norway handles mobile telephone submissions; Dagen Nyheter's strategy for its mobile website in Sweden; the Arizona Republic's use of electronic tablet readers to speed newspaper home delivery; and the reasons that three companies ­ Tribune Company in the US, Il Sole 24 Ore in Italy and The Daily Herald in suburban Chicago, US - chose their advertising and editorial systems. Read the executive summary of the report here.