The first two GateHouse Media newspapers launched Monday on the new central desks with the production of the Rockford Register Star and the Freeport Journal-Standard at the Rockford Design House in Illinois.
At the other Design House in Framingham, Mass., 21 weekly newspapers will launch throughout this week, starting with seven Tuesday.
The launches wrap up months of work with Saxotech, GateHouse’s new content management system. The new system allows newsrooms to communicate with central desks to design pages and ship them to printing presses.
“The official launch of the Design Houses in Rockford and Boston is another big step GateHouse Media is taking to develop true multimedia newsrooms,” said David Arkin, vice president of content & audience. “The launch of the new Saxotech system allows our newsrooms to be more efficient than we ever have been before when it comes to the creation and distribution of our content. Having a group of copy editors and designers in two centralized centers puts significant talent and focus around our print products while allowing our newsrooms to be zeroed in on great storytelling for our print and online readers.”
Newsrooms at all of the newspapers have participated in training and testing in the lead-up to the launches. Staff at the new Design Houses have been involved in the development of the customized Saxotech system that will be used for all of the newsrooms transitioning to the central desks.
The rollout adds new GateHouse newspapers each week to the Design House workload. In all, 280 newsrooms will transition to the Design Houses by the end of the year.
GateHouse newsrooms also are transitioning online to Saxotech from July through September in a separate rollout. As part of the integration of GateHouse’s content management system, all news websites will be redesigned.
The first two GateHouse Media newspapers launched Monday on the new central desks with the production of the Rockford Register Star and the Freeport Journal-Standard at the Rockford Design House in Illinois.
At the other Design House in Framingham, Mass., 21 weekly newspapers will launch throughout this week, starting with seven Tuesday.
The launches wrap up months of work with Saxotech, GateHouse’s new content management system. The new system allows newsrooms to communicate with central desks to design pages and ship them to printing presses.
“The official launch of the Design Houses in Rockford and Boston is another big step GateHouse Media is taking to develop true multimedia newsrooms,” said David Arkin, vice president of content & audience. “The launch of the new Saxotech system allows our newsrooms to be more efficient than we ever have been before when it comes to the creation and distribution of our content. Having a group of copy editors and designers in two centralized centers puts significant talent and focus around our print products while allowing our newsrooms to be zeroed in on great storytelling for our print and online readers.”
Newsrooms at all of the newspapers have participated in training and testing in the lead-up to the launches. Staff at the new Design Houses have been involved in the development of the customized Saxotech system that will be used for all of the newsrooms transitioning to the central desks.
The rollout adds new GateHouse newspapers each week to the Design House workload. In all, 280 newsrooms will transition to the Design Houses by the end of the year.
GateHouse newsrooms also are transitioning online to Saxotech from July through September in a separate rollout. As part of the integration of GateHouse’s content management system, all news websites will be redesigned.
