The picture desk, the archive and the rights behind them
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General news for the media production trade, alongside the Picdar announcements kept from the original record.
News for the media production trade — picture desks, libraries, archives and the rights business around them — alongside the Picdar announcements we keep from the original record.
Archive items carry the date they were issued under, and are reproduced unchanged. They are a useful check on how the industry talked about digital asset management while it was still being argued over.
19 October 2026
UK newsrooms are being pressed to strengthen both their photo metadata and retention controls as the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) expands its…
In its July 2023 Data Protection and Journalism Code of Practice, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has clarified how GDPR rules apply to journalism, including…
8 December 2025
From the 2005 site
HOW OUTDOOR ADVENTURERS SPEND A RAINY EVENING: MOVIES, GAMES AND ONLINE CASINOS
Date: 08/12/2025
Rain happens. It is not the end of your trip or your mood. A rainy evening can be warm, calm, and fun. You can rest your legs, dry your gear, and share time with your team.
MEDIA MOGUL WORKFLOW PROVIDES PLATFORM FOR GROWTH IN MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
Date: 25/04/2006
Andrew Savage, Production Manager at Mortons says, “Within only a few months from implementation we experienced a quantum leap in time and cost savings in production management, happier editorial teams and a ten-fold growth in syndication.”
Date: 8/12/2005
Butlins’ Product Manager, Jo-Anne Woodstock, explains: “Media Zone allows us to look after copyright management in a fraction of the time”.
Date: 5/12/2005
Irish News now able to think about the future, not worry about the present. Liam McMullen, Resources and Systems Manager at Irish News, “What we’ve bought is a turnkey solution, and it’s excellent.”
?PICDAR IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE?
Date: 01/11/2005
Outgoing Chief Operations and Technology Director of Associated Newspapers, Allan Marshall, gave an exclusive interview to Gary Cullum of Production Journal, reflecting on his 18 years with the publisher latterly as Operations and Technology Director. Talking of the Media Mogul Picture Desk and Content Management systems at Associated Newspapers, Allan Marshall says: “This comes from Picdar and is a brilliant bit of code. It’s light years ahead of anything else which is out there.”
See the full article at the Production Journal website
Date: 05/07/2005
Picdar hosts accredited Media Pictures Website for G8 Summit at Gleneagles
Date: 22/05/2005
Picdar announces Version 2 of its flagship Media Mogul jSuite enterprise solution and new workflow products at Newstec 2005
Date: 11/10/2004
Picdar announces new strategy, new products and new confidence after 20 years at the vanguard of innovation in Digital Asset Management solutions.
Date: 11/10/2004
PicUp from Picdar is a new Media Mogul 4ej suite application for online image uploading.
Date: 11/10/2004
We'd all like to know what the future holds, but Picdar has already mapped it out with its new Media Mogul 4ej enterprise solution for Digital Asset Management and Content Workflow applications.
PHOTOSHOP GIVEN EVEN MORE POWER WITH PICDAR'S NEW MEDIA MOGUL PLUG-IN
Date: 14/05/2004
From the touch-line of premier league football games, to the front-line of combat, photographers and picture editors can now enjoy the power of saving and indexing images to Media Mogul from any location with Picdar's new Photoshop plug-in. The same benefits are enjoyed by location photographers uploading images to centralised systems, immediately saving time and keeping track of often hard won and valuable images.
CAMERA PRESS PREVIEWS NEW SERVICE AT PICTURE BUYERS FAIR
Date: 11/05/2004
Web enhanced service built on Picdar's Agency Edition of Media Mogul. Picture Buyers Fair, 13th to 14th May 2004 - Stand number 22
PICDAR'S INDESIGN PLUG-IN NOW FASTER, SAFER AND EASIER TO USE
Date: 29/03/2004
Picdar announced today the release of its Media Mogul InDesign plug-in Version 2.0. This powerful software integrates Media Mogul's workflow management tools with InDesign, streamlining the publishing process and significantly reducing the number of steps to produce a complete page layout.
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A census of this site: how much sits in each section, how much of it is reproduced 2005 archive and how much was written for the relaunch.
| Section | All | Archive | New |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picture desk | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Asset management | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Rights & licensing | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Archives | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Workflow | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| Case studies | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| News | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Total | 71 | 49 | 22 |