Survey of Newspaper Production Flow for E-paper - Kungliga ...

Johan Danckwardt
Survey of newspaper production flow for e-paper Appendix
Interview with Fredrik Welander
Webmaster, e-mail based interview (2005-08-19)
(Translated from Swedish to English)
What type of management system do Sundsvalls Tidning use to publish content on the
web? And from which supplier?
We have built thee system by our selves in PHP and feeds the data into a MSSQL database.
Do Sundsvalls Tidning use any system intended for the advertising on the webpage? Is it
the same as the traditional newspaper MPress?
We use two different systems, on system where we can manually edit the code direct into the
webpages. The main system we use is Open AdStream but it is not connected or related to
MPress. Open AdStream is supplied by 24-7 Real Media.
What type of publishing channels do you use besides the traditional newspaper, web
publishing, WAP and Radio?
We only publish in a small scale on WAP, we do have some small RSS’s, some PDF’s and a
few SMS and MMS services. We also broadcast news via the radio channel Radio Guld in the
afternoons.
Is it the same management system that handles all the digital publishing channels?
No it is a beautiful mixture. The automated parts is the RSS’s WAP and text version, this
system is built in PHP in the same system as above. To the SMS and MMS services we use
APMM (Arena Partner).
How do Sundsvalls Tidning handle the sport results, is it though iPlay (same system that
the editorial department uses)?
Yes it is handled through iPlay.
Complementary questions by e-mail 2005-08-29
From what suppliers do you receive external content and in what format (to be used at
st.nu)?
Supplier/Type of content Format Comment
TT XML Two separate content flows, one directed to
feed Newspilot and the other intended to st.nu.
The one intended for st.nu is published at
once. These two content flows are not the
same, TT makes an selection of what content
to deliver to st.nu.
SMHI, weather XML and jpg Right as you said
Morningstar, Stock quotations - The Morningstar content is framed or linked on
st.nu.
Mobile Image Once in a while we get images sent to us from
our readers. These images are stored via
Newspilot.
Text Text Our reporters et cetera. can put down text into
Newspilot via e-mail.
Information from e-mail 2005-04-25:
SMHI delivers weather forecast in XML format.
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