Pagination profiles published

A survey of pagination and technology has been published by two of the industry's leading affinity groups.

The Society of Newspaper Design and the American Society of Newspaper Editors co-sponsored a survey that drew responses from 245 newspapers. The resulting data -- along with case studies of pagination from a wide range of newspapers -- is now available in a 24-page tabloid newspaper.

The survey was coordinated by Olivia Casey, an SND officer who is a designer at the Dallas Morning News, and Joy Franklin, an ASNE officer who is executive editor of the Times-News in Hendersonville, N.C.

Articles in the tab were written by Randy Bennett, director of new media at the Newspaper Association of America; David Carlson, director of the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida; Neil Chase, of Chase Publishing in Arlington Heights, Ill.; Howard Finberg, senior editor for technology at the Phoenix Newspapers Inc. in Arizona; Neal Pattison, managing editor of the Albuquerque (N.M.) Tribune, and Hugh Stuart, deputy managing editor of the Toronto Sun.

To get a copy of The ASNE/SND Technology Survey, send $2 and a stamped, self-addressed 9 x 12 envelope to ASNE Foundation, P.O. Box 4090, Reston, Va. 22090-4090.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...
What drugs and computers have in common: At the System/55-System/25 Users Group, President Chris Caneles finished his term by changing employers, leaving the San Francisco Examiner newsroom to become information systems director at McClatchy's Fresno Bee. Caneles is succeeded as president of the newly renamed System Integrators Systems User Group (Sisug -- since SII no longer sells System/55s or System/25s) by Barry Abisch, systems editor of Gannett Suburban Newspapers, White Plains, N.Y. Jim Albright, system director of the Denver Post, was elected vice president/president-elect. Kim Pollard, systems editor of the Tampa Tribune, was elected secretary. Incumbent Treasurer John Klenk, senior editor of the Toronto Star, was re-elected. Arline King, systems director of San Gabriel Valley Publishing Co., was elected to the executive committee, and Nevin Gill, publishing systems manager of the Sacramento Bee, was appointed to the executive committee. ... Future meeting sites were announced: September 1995 in Des Moines, Iowa; April 1996 in Sacramento (the SII European users group hopes to return), and September 1996 in Albany, N.Y. ... Computers and drugs? They both have "users."

Executive shuffle: At Information International Inc. of Los Angeles, Alden Edwards becomes president and chief operating officer. Former president Charles Ying becomes vice chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Edwards, the System Integrators executive who lead the management buyout and ran the company for five years, is a former sales and marketing executive at Atex and Singer who joined Triple-I last December as senior vice president. Ying had been president of Triple-I since 1992, and in the '70s had been a founder of Atex. ... At Harris Corp., the Melbourne, Fla., parent company of Harris Publishing Systems Corp., Phillip Farmer has been named chairman of the board and chief executive officer; he'll hold these titles in addition to president and chief operating officer. Farmer succeeds John Hartley, who's retiring at the end of the month after almost 40 years with the company. ... At Scitex America Corp., George Carlisle has resigned as president. The new prexy is Shimon Alon, who most recently had been managing director of Scitex Europe; previously Alon had been vice president for marketing and vice president for customer support at Scitex America. Alon will be replaced in Europe by Dirk Craen, Scitex Europe's vice president of sales. ...

New media mavens: At Indianapolis Newspapers Inc., Jay Small has been named on-line services editor; Small had been the art director of the Indianapolis Star. ... At the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Va., Mark Edelen has been named editor of Pilot Online, the paper's Internet site (http://www.infi.net/pilot); Edelen had been a news designer at the paper. ... At Congressional Quarterly Inc., David Rapp has been named editor of new media; he'd been assistant managing editor of the company's Weekly Report. ...

Real bits: At Newsweek, Lynn Staley has been named director of design; she'd been deputy managing editor for graphics at the Boston Globe. ... At the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., Ron Reason has been named acting director of visual journalism; he'd been design editor of the St. Petersburg Times. ... At the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Jerry Lower, Pat McDonough and Lynn Morris have been named to the pagination training team; the former editors and designers will work with the paper's staff to learn the paper's new CCI Europe pagination system. ...

New supplier: The technical and management staff that had handled the publishing industry for SHL Systemhouse has struck out on its own, starting Publishing Connections Inc. of Bethesda, Md., and Manotick, Ontario, Canada. Michael Arnold, who had been industry marketing manager for publishing at Systemhouse, will be the new company's president. Andrew Bart, who had been the president of SHL Systemhouse Inc., is the new company's chief operating officer. Brent Goss has been appointed director of technology at Publishing Connections; he'd held a similar position in the publishing group at Systemhouse. ...

Vendor vibrations: At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Bryan Moss has been named West Coast district sales manager; Moss most recently had been with the Associated Press in technology sales. Also at Monotype, Jim Farmer has been named Midwest district sales manager; Farmer too had previously been with the AP. ... At Nikon Electronic Imaging of Melville, N.Y., Gregg Fiore has been named technical support specialist for Mac and PC and Steven Pont has been named software development engineer for Windows. ... At WeatherData Inc. of Wichita, Kan., Kristi Francis has been named director of sales; she had been director of business administration. Taking that role will be Sharol Youngers, who'd most recently been with the Farm Credit Bank of Wichita. ...

Confabs: For those of you who eschew Quark, try the PageMaker Conference, June 12-13 in Seattle. Call (206) 285-0305 for the details. ... The NextWorld Expo '95 will be June 12-15 in San Francisco for those interested in the NextStep development environment; call (800) 767-2336 for the next step in registering. ... Print Quality '95, sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology, will focus on "benchmarking"; it's June 12-15 in Rochester, N.Y. Call (716) 475-2723 for a definition of "benchmarking." ... To learn how to make those desktop files print, try the PostScript Productivity course sponsored by the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation; it's June 21-23 in Pittsburgh. Call (412) 621-6941 for information. ... "So you want to succeed on-line?" That's the title of a conference co-sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America and Simba Information Inc. (publishers of the NewsInc. newsletter) June 22 in Atlanta. Speakers include Alan Brigish of Simba, Bob Ingle of Knight-Ridder, John Smyntek of the Detroit Free Press, Peter Winter of Cox Newspapers and Steve Yelvington of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Call (203) 834-0033, Ext. 173 for more info. ... The very next day (how convenient) is Connections X, the NAA's new media conference in Atlanta. Topics include "Right from the starting flag," "View from the top" and "Headlights in the rearview mirror." For more information, call NAA at (703) 648-1000. ... And since so many people will be in Atlanta that week anyway, a few of us thought we'd invite some suppliers down and put on a little trade show and conference. It's NEXPO time again, June 24-28. Call the number above for details. ...

Errors and Omissions: Last month was not a good one; herewith, our indiscretions: