Holy orders: Pope goes with Ted and Fred
Jun 29, 2009 at 06:08 pm by
Staff
The Vatican has chosen Tera’s GN3 as the new editorial publishing system for its worldwide, multi-language newspaper ‘L'Osservatore Romano’. The paper is now being equipped with 45 seats of GN3's Ted editing software and 17 of its Fred page makeup application, completely replacing a 14-year old system currently being used by a 62-strong editorial team.
The newspaper covers all of Pope Benedict XVI's public activities, publishes editorials by important churchmen, and runs official church documents once they are released. Its modest, modern-looking office is just few yards from the Apostolic Palace and almost at the same level as the papal apartments.
Installation of the new GN3 editorial system is already underway and reseller GMDE will work to a schedule from the customer that sees completion in late northern autumn.
Tera is on home ground in Italy, producing more than 50 mainly mid-sized titles, with an average circulation of 25,000 copies a day and typically a regional paper or a chain of local papers.
‘Libero’ and ‘La Padania’, two national dailies, are produced using GN3. ‘Libero’, which is based in Milan, uses a 100 seat GN3 system to produce an average of 48 pages daily and over 70 thousand copies a day. ‘La Padania’, the daily Milan newspaper of the Northern League Party, has 50 seats and a nationwide daily circulation of 50,000 copies. ‘La Padania’ also publishes on the web.
In the south of Italy, two of the most prestigious papers of the area, ‘La Gazzetta del Sud’, based in Messina, and ‘Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno’, based in Bari, use Tera's GN3. These two titles have a combined circulation of over 100,000 copies a day using more than 250 seats.
Other Italian papers served by Tera's GN3 are ‘Corriere di Como’, ‘Corriere Adriatico’, ‘Gazzetta di Parma’, and ‘Eco di Biella’, a chain owned by media entrepreneur Giuseppe Ciarrapico, Latina Oggi and Ciociaria Oggi; the Italian media group CEGA, with 5 titles that cover the Adriatic Riviera; and the DMedia group with 17 titles published in Lombardy. In addition two prestigious free newspapers in Italy are also produced with Tera's GN3 suite of products: in order of the number of seats used, ‘Epolis’ with more than 150 seats and 18 editions daily and ‘DNews’ with more that 30 seats and four regional editions daily.
