01Technicians at Heidelberg, Germany
02Print run of ‘Dagens Næringsliv’, Norway
03A ‘Dagens Næringsliv’ front page
04Staff looking at pages in the newsroom
05Photo editors at work on a story
06The ‘Dagens Næringsliv’ Friday culture supplement, ‘D2’
07‘Dagens Næringsliv’ on the street
08Editor-in-chief and publisher Amund Djuve
09Staff discussing a story
10The iPad edition of ‘Dagens Næringsliv’
11Outside the ‘Dagens Næringsliv’ office
12Editor Gry Egenes
13Editor-in-chief of ‘Tehelka’, Tarun Tejpal, at his office in New Delhi
14Assistant art director Samia Singh
15Front of the ‘Tehelka’ office in New Delhi
16Staff in the office
17Reading material at ‘Tehelka’
18General staff meeting
19New Delhi newsstand
20Magazines on display in reception at ‘Tehelka’
21Thalia Pocket Shop
22The exterior of the Heidelberg factory
23Press production room
24Loading ink
25Testing for colour and print quality
26Technicians overseeing quality
27The production line
28On the factory floor
29A Heidelberg press
30Outside the TITLE store in Surry Hills, Sydney
31Browsing in the store
32Choice vinyl
33Shelves and racks of music and film neatly clutter TITLE
34Book choices
35Picking out some vinyl
36Looking for DVDs
37Classic films are stocked in quality editions
In the rush into digitalisation, US media giants hastily abandoned many of their core values, says the veteran journalist and former foreign editor of the ‘Chicago Tribune’. Elsewhere, old-fashioned values are thriving. We meet the players with successful business models.
Employment: In the past decade,25 per cent of daily newspaper newsroom staff lost their jobs.
Advertising: Total advertising revenue at US daily newspapers fell from $49.4bn in 2005 to $27.6bn in 2009.
Sales: The San Francisco Chronicle sold on average 527,466 copies in 2001 and 235,350 in 2011.
Revenue: More than 90 per cent of the US newspaper industry’s revenue still derives from print but each day the format is attracting fewer consumers and advertisers.
Closures: Newspaper closures in the US in 2009: 142.
Readership: 1.7 billion people read a daily newspaper – equal to 25 per cent of the world’s adult population. If you include non-dailies, this figure increases to 37 per cent.
Growing markets: Over the past five years, the total global paid-for daily newspaper circulation rose 5.7 per cent. It was up 30 per cent in Africa, 13 per cent in Asia, 5 per cent in South America. In the same period figures fell 10.6 per cent in North America, 7.9 per cent in Europe, and 5.6 per cent in Australia and Oceania.
Most avid readers: The world’s largest market for newspapers is India with 110 million copies sold daily.
Dominie Press used to produce four-colour work on a one-colour machine. Thirty years on, the family-owned, Singapore-based company has won D&AD Yellow Pencil awards for its unusual printing techniques for clients including Porsche and Werk magazine. Dominie’s founder and CEO Oh Teng Hin says that methods such as in-house smokescreening, or bullet-holed and burnt effect, provide an interesting edge in a traditional market.
The key to success, Oh says, has been establishing a niche among his clients, who hail from Australia and Asia to Europe and the States. “The printing industry in Asia is getting smaller – but there’s still a market for very special books, which means that our not-very-high-tech but creative business keeps expanding.”
Illumination: LED lights embedded in print products.
Security printing: In which a print product can test user identity, for example.
Multimedia: In the far future, perhaps even print-based video.
Catalogues: In absolute numbers, fewer magazines and papers, far more product catalogues. “After the Bible and Koran, the IKEA catalogue is the world’s most widely printed product,” says Jürgen Grimm. This trend is set to continue.
Issue 14
Angelika Taschen has given more established book publishers a run for their money and turned the sexy and subversive Taschen Books into a global powerhouse. She chooses simple wurst for her last meal.
Issue 12
The next correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Corine Lesnes of ‘Le Monde’. Once frosty, France’s relations with the US have improved with the arrival of President…
Issue 24
Printed Matter art bookshop in New York is a rare breed- a retail venture that puts principles before profit.
Issue 60
A magazine printing concept, Jim Marshall speakers and other media and art news.
Issue 47
Hilversum was the centre of Dutch broadcasting for the best part of a century, a model media city of daring architecture. Hit hard by changes in the industry, a period of self-reflection has the city searching for new…
Issue 60
Whether it be picture-laden coffee table tomes or volumes on aesthetic theory, Germany produces some of the finest art books in the world – and that’s not limited to Taschen. Monocle went to Berlin to pore over a buoyant…
Issue 20
For our series on media barons we feature Erick Thohir, founder of the Mahaka Media group in Jakarta. After revitalising the failing paper ‘Republika’ he’s now on a mission to modernise print, radio and TV in a freer Ind…
Issue 13
Publishing dynasty MDS is growing faster than at any time in its 205-year history, but the man leading its charge into the digital arena is determined that the firm stays close to its founding principles.
Issue 31
Where did the past 36 months go? Our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé surveys the editorial floor on the eve of our third birthday.
Issue 33
Since resigning as design editors-in-chief at Taschen, husband and wife Peter and Charlotte Fiell have been plotting their own publishing empire. After two years of hard work, they are ready to make their splash. But don’t…
Issue 31
Starting on a shoestring, Benjamin Sommerhalder moved from making his own magazine to building up a small publishing house with a gallery and shop space. And on the way he’s kick-started an old-fashioned publishing boom.
Issue 22
we peruse the shelves of the thriving, eclectic magazine shop Papercut in Stockholm.
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