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St. Joseph News–Press Selects NewsSpeed Editorial & Archive Solutions from DTI

April 26, 2006 (Springville, UT) The St. Joseph News–Press of Missouri has signed a contract for NewsSpeed 6, DTI’s editorial pagination system and part of DTI’s Liquid Media publishing suite. DTI’s NewsSpeed Archive will also be implemented.

“The range of features DTI offers was superior to all other systems we looked at,” said Jessica DeHaven, Lifestyles Editor at the St. Joseph News-Press. METS, the proprietary system they have been using. In the old system, page layout was performed using Quark Xpress while editing was done in Microsoft Word.

In the NewsSpeed system stories, images, and pages will be stored in a Cache post–relational database. The multidimensional architecture of the Cache database makes it the ideal solution for media organizations that distribute content to a variety of mediums. It handles the volume of digital media with ease and efficiency.

Reporters, and editors at the News-Press will use 30 seats of SpeedWriter, DTI’s text editing application integrating Adobe InCopy CS2 to compose and edit stories. Designers will use 21 seats of PageSpeed, which includes Adobe InDesign CS2, to create and layout pages.

“The DTI system offered all we were looking for and includes several features that we believe will save time and allow us to track the progress of stories and pages through the system,” said DeHaven.

PlanSpeed, DTI’s planning and pagination software, will handle editorial and display advertising planning and pagination. The DTI system will interface with St. Joseph�s display advertising system to bring ads into DTI’s pagination system.

In addition to implementing the NewsSpeed editorial system, the News–Press plans to transfer all archived data from the Stauffer Text Archive system they have been using and from their CD and DVD repositories to the DTI NewsSpeed Archive, improving the ability to rapidly search and use archived content.

“We believe DTI will put us on the leading edge of newsroom front–end systems,” concluded DeHaven.

About St. Joseph News–Press

The St. Joseph News–Press is the flagship paper of the News–Press & Gazette Company, which is primarily owned by the Bradley family. The paper was founded in 1845 and bought by the Bradley family in 1951. The St. Joseph News–Press has a circulation of approximately 36,000 weekdays and 38,000 on Sundays. The News–Press & Gazette Company owns several other newspapers in Missouri and Kansas. The multimedia company also owns and operates cable television systems serving more than 100,000 subscribers in Missouri, Arizona. The company also operates network–affiliated television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon and Texas.

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