Editor & Publisher’s Virtual Super “Solutions” Conference: An Online Equipment/Systems Workshop & Tradeshow

11:00 Eastern Time
Super Solutions Workshop 1:
Content Automation, Outsourcing, Partnerships?

What solutions are suppliers working on to cope with the latest challenges facing newspaper operations? How far are newspapers willing to go in automating the advertising process?

Also, as more publishers partner for distribution services or outsource the function altogether to a specialist company, how will circulation and other business systems communicate with those third-parties’ systems.

Join E&P for this panel discussion and learn about the options, costs and benefits of moving to a cross-media editorial system.

Moderator: Elizabeth Sholar, formerly Chief Technology Officer of The St. Petersburg Times
Speaker 1: Jason Fry, Web CMS Evangelist, EidosMedia
Speaker 2: Michael Stanek, CEO, Classifieds Plus
Audience Q&A: E&P Editor Jim Rosenberg

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1:00 Eastern Time
Super Solutions Workshop 2
Preparing Press Rooms For New Business Opportunities

In order to survive in challenging times, newspapers are exploring possibilities of serving growing market segments with capital equipment that can expand their production capabilities. New presses that offer faster ROI, improved quality and faster output enable product diversification and more flexibility than ever before.

Newspapers and independent production facilities need to prepare for an economic recovery now. This discussion will look at what innovators are up to and possible applications for commercial-quality platesetting, different types of inks, paper stock other than newsprint and ancillary equipment such as quarterfolders, stitchers, trimmers and gluers.

Join E&P for this panel discussion and hear from leading vendors regarding the capital and ancillary equipment, inks and paper that will expand a newspaper's production capabilities.

Moderator: Jim Falzone, Operations Director, Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co.
Speaker 1: Ulrich Wicke, Vice President, Web Sales and Service, KBA
Speaker 2: William King, Vice President, Production Director, The Packet and Gazette
Speaker 3: John Sartoris, Group Production Director, Nielsen Business Media
Audience Q&A: E&P Editor Mark Fitzgerald

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3:00 Eastern Time
Super Solutions Workshop 3
On The Horizon: Technologies To Look For

Regardless of ownership or business model, preferred platform or mode of delivery, most newspaper businesses will probably survive their industry’s current crisis as news and information businesses of some sort.

There are emerging technologies that are coming in the areas of ink and paper. Today’s newspaper vendors need to look well beyond the next year at how they may exploit new technologies in the development of products or services for news publishers of the future.

Join E&P for this panel session and find out what may be coming on the product development horizon, back in the lab or already in the pipeline.

Moderator: Eric Wolferman, Vice President, Information Technology, Denver Newspaper Agency
Speaker 1: Gustaf Sahlman, Chief Executive Officer, Polopoly
Speaker 2: Jedd Gould, President, MediaBids
Speaker 3: Alan Flaherty, Baldwin Tech
Audience Q&A: E&P Editor Jim Rosenberg

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