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The Los Angeles Daily Journal Implements Unified Editorial, Advertising and Web Order Entry Systems from DTI
August 29, 2006 (Springville, UT) The Daily Journal Corporation, which owns the LA Daily Journal, the oldest newspaper serving the legal community in Los Angeles, California as well as several other legal publications including; the San Francisco Daily Journal, Phoenix Record Reporter, Riverside Business Reporter, Riverside Business Journal, Orange County Reporter, San Diego Commerce, Oakland Inter–City Express, Sacramento daily Recorder, and Sonoma Herald Recorder has selected DTI to supply the group with completely unified editorial, advertising and Web Order Entry publishing systems. The NewsSpeed editorial system was implemented earlier this year and implementation of ClassSpeed, DTI’s classified advertising system is currently underway.
Pagination and production of all of these publications occur centrally in Los Angeles and will be done using the new DTI system. In the old workflow, all text was written in Microsoft Word and editorial and ad content were laid out in Quark. In the new DTI system stories, ads, graphics, images, and pages will be stored in databases that effectively unify all of the content in one solution, regardless of its physical location.
Reporters, and editors at the LA Daily Journal use 50 seats of SpeedWriter, DTI’s text editing application integrating Adobe InCopy CS2 to compose and edit stories. Designers use 5 seats of PageSpeed, which includes Adobe InDesign CS2, to create and layout pages.
eWriter will be used by journalists and outside news contributors to submit stories to the news database remotely through a Web browser. Stories they have written will be entered into the database, along with any media files (photos, graphics, movie or sound clips) that go with the story.
17 seats of ClassSpeed will be implemented. 4 seats of AdSpeed, DTI–s display advertising system, which incorporates the advanced design tools of Adobe InDesign with powerful database publishing capabilities will also be installed.
Currently the LA Daily Journal doesn’t have a Web Order Entry solution. That will change when ClassSpeed Web Order Entry (Web OE) is implemented. Once ClassSpeed Web OE goes live the LA Daily Journal will be able to accept ads from advertisers 24/7. Advertisers will have a place online to design, preview, and purchase classified ads. DTI’s Web products enable publications to use the Internet as a tightly integrated extension of their publishing operations. The architecture of the Web products is based upon DTI–s core foundation. This foundation is based on Internet technology that keeps data secure, while allowing a great amount of flexibility and creativity.
2 PlanSpeed seats will be used for page design, planning and pagination. PlanSpeed will enable editors or paginators to plan and track pages, watching editorial, display ads and classifieds coming together in single plan. Ad paginators and news designers will be able to work on the same page at the same time. By using DTI’s software for input and pagination, the LA Daily Journal will be able to implement a more structured workflow for inputting and tracking content with much tighter deadlines.
About The Daily Corporation
The Daily Journal Corporation publishes newspapers and Web sites for California, Nevada and the California Lawyer magazine. The Company produces several specialized information services, in both print and online, including Court Rules, Judicial Profiles, Bankruptcy and Real Estate services. It also serves as a newspaper representative specializing in public notice advertising. The Daily Journal also owns the majority interests of SUSTAIN Technologies, Inc. which provides the SUSTAIN family of products which consists of technologies and applications to enable justice agencies to automate their operations. Essentially all of the Company’s operations are based in California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Virginia. Source: www.dailyjournal.com.
