Spending speed is matched only by the push to finish projects quickly and get new equipment online. Of note, Austin just finished a major renovation for the San Diego Union Tribune and is now starting on another project for the Mobile Register. In Chicago, McClier recently handed over the keys for a new facility to the Chicago Sun-Times. GSI and Turner also completed a job for the Dayton Daily News in the past year. Don't count on it, says Rogers.
People like to hold the news in their hands.
Design-build offered the Post the chance to catch up without falling further behind in the city's relentless tabloid wars. And adding color, clarity, production speed and ink that won't come off on readers' hands are all improvements that have been long overdue. A subsidiary of media magnate Rupert Murdoch's publicly traded News Corp., New York City, the Post is the Australian billionaire's only U.S. newspaper. News Corp.'s other media and entertainment holdings include splashy and trashy British and Australian papers, as well as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Television, TV Guide Inc. and the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team. An eclectic collection, to be sure.