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News International selects Méthode for UK titles

Thursday 27. September 2012 - The UK publishing group has decided tomove production of its newspapers and associated digital editions to an integrated newsroom operation based on EidosMedia'sMéthode.

News International, publishers of The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun, have chosen the new-generation editorial and publishing platform Méthode for the print and online editions of their UK titles. Other News Corporation titles already using Méthode include The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
“The choice of Méthode forms part of a strategic investment in the way we create content and serve it to our customers,” said Spencer Piggott, NI’s Publishing Portfolio Manager.
“The project, which we’ve called Newsroom 360, aims not only to serve all channels and platforms from a common content base, but also to enable the kind of dynamic, flexible production workflows needed to stay ahead of our customers’ expectations. Having the right technology is a critical factor in the process of enabling newsroom change.”
The implementation will be based on the ‘content hub’ model already used with success by other Méthode customers. It will also make use of Méthode News Planning, a flexible workspace used to plan and coordinate news coverage in multichannel newsrooms.
“The Newsroom 360 project is an exciting response to the challenge posed by the rapid evolution of readership and technology in the UK market,” said Umberto Gadarco, EidosMedia Business Development Manager. “We believe that the Méthode solution will make a valuable contribution to achieving its goals both now and in the long term.”