Changes in media landscape and news consumption methods have profound impact in newspaper printing business also. While western world shows sharp decline in newspaper circulation, South Asian countries are on positive. According to World Press Trends report 2017, South Asian countries, particularly India contributes greatly for this positive circulation trend. Even though it is good news for the industry, it puts forth many challenges such as availability of newsprint, producing innovative and quality products, quality of man power and so on.

This 5th module of Excellence workshop will focus on the trends of newspaper print production, new business models and opportunities available for the printers, sustainable and green printing. This workshop also addresses how the future newspaper printing business models will be and how could be printers prepared to embrace future needs. This workshop brings in modules for human resource development for organisational excellence.