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The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has announced the publication of ISO 21812-1, Graphic technology -- Print product metadata for PDF files -- Part 1: Architecture and core requirements for metadata. The Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech) administers the ISO Technical Committee 130 working group (TC130/WG2) that developed this international standard. PDF files represent content [...]

Precision Colour Printing managing director Alex Evans is to step down from his role with the company next February.Alex, who has been MD since June 2005, will be succeeded by Mark Brownrigg, who was previously managing director at Skanem UK Limited, one of Europe's largest producers of self-adhesive labels. He will join PCP in November [...]

On the day that Boris Johnson took up his new job as Prime Minister, a record 93 winners were presented with their Print Futures Awards in Westminister, at a reception at the House of Lords hosted by Lord Black of Brentwood, deputy chairman of the Telegraph Media Group and president emeritus of The Printing Charity. [...]

The Government is to invest £2 million in a pilot innovation fund to support public interest journalism in the UK. In the review of journalism earlier this year, Dame Frances Cairncross recommended government funding for innovative approaches to improve the supply of public interest news. Now the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed [...]

Reach has confirmed that it is in the "early stages of discussions" in relation to acquiring certain JPIMedia assets. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, Reach chief financial officer Simon Fuller said there was no certainty that the discussions would lead to a transaction. The response stated: “The Board of Reach plc ("Reach" [...]

There’s plenty of news industry reading material in the July/August issue of PJ, including exclusive photos from Guardian Print Centre, London, where two manroland Colorman 80 presses, Ferag mailroom and ancillary equipment have been decommissioned and stripped out in just 15 weeks, producing over 50 streams of waste. Thousands of tonnes have been recycled with [...]

KATE Reardon is editor-in-chief of News UK’s upmarket coffee table glossy magazine LUXX, a first-time winner at newsawards 2019 where it triumphed in the prestigious Non-Weekly National Supplement/Magazine of the Year category. Kate is this month’s particpant in 10pt Talking Point and gives PJ readers an insight into what makes her tick. You don’t receive [...]

The BBC, working with local news publishers and the News Media Association, has held its first Local Democracy Reporter conference and awards - 18 months after the scheme was launched. PJ correspondent ALAN GEERE was at the BBC MediaCity event to hear how the 140-plus reporters have produced 90,000 stories focusing on local councils and [...]

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has moved to reassure publishers that they will not be affected by plans to introduce an age appropriate design code and standards for websites which the News Media Association fears would “wreak havoc” upon news media. Speaking to the DCMS Select Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into immersive and addictive [...]

The new Master of the Stationers’ Company Trevor Fenwick will be like no other. He has been described by his colleagues at Euromonitor International as the chief disruption officer and by a fellow Stationer as “part Luke Skywalker, part Darth Vader”. He glories in these descriptions because he is someone who likes to break the [...]