In the second installment of Journal Register CEO John Paton‘s conversation with Beet.TV, he discussed the newspaper publisher’s integration of Critical Media‘s Syndicaster cloud-based editing, production, and syndication platform. After the jump, Critical Media CEO Sean Morgan offers more details on Syndicaster.
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Journal Register CEO John Paton is aiming high, telling Beet.TV that his 324 or so publications, which serve more than 900 communities in 10 states, will beat Aol’s Patch and The Huffington Post in its home markets.
Paton said his company’s sites are reaching 16 million monthly unique visitors, up from 13 million last year.
Journal Register to Deploy Critical Media’s Syndicaster Real-Time Video Platform
Journal Register, owner of newspapers and local news Web sites, will deploy Syndicaster, a real-time broadcast-to-Web video platform from Critical Media, across its 324 multiplatform products serving 992 communities in 10 states, including 18 daily newspaper Web sites.
Syndicaster will allow users at the Journal Register-owned Web sites to aggregate, review, edit, title, tag, geo-tag, and thumbnail proprietary video from both its journalists and its readers, with the video then available for real-time publishing to the company’s network via the Syndicaster player and ad-server platform.
Journal Register users will also be able to migrate video to platforms such as YouTube and iTunes via Critical Media’s Super Distribution, as well as syndicating video via ClipSyndicate.
E&P Names Hispanic Media CEO “Publisher of the Year”
Considering the hemmoraging most print publications saw last year, it may have been a challenge for Editor & Publisher magazine to name a Publisher of the Year – but they have. impreMedia Chairman and CEO John Paton
“In just over five years he has created the first successful nationwide Hispanic Newspaper, Print and Online publishing company in the United States,” the magazine reported.
E&P editor Greg Mitchell, said Paton was chosen “in recognition of his work that led to wide success for impreMedia across print, web and mobile in the past year.”
impreMedia is the nation’s largest Hispanic newspaper publisher reaching 63% of the U.S. Hispanic population. Its leading publications include La Opinión in Los Angeles and El Diario La Prensa in New York. Its Websites include, www.impre.com, www.imprerewards.com, www.lavibra.com, www.impreautos.com, www.laopinion.com, www.eldiariony.com, www.hoynyc.com, www.laraza.com, www.laprensafl.com, www.elmensajero.com, www.diariosrumbo.com, www.vistamagazine.com, and www.contigola.com.
The company is not immune to the print pains. 16 employees lost their jobs in late December when the free New York daily “Hoy” went Web only.
Press release after the jump…
