– Just the way it is now, we do not have the newspaper in the morning at all, say a given Kirsti M. Nielsen, editor of Rana Blad.
local newspaper from Mo i Rana is one of 40 editors who have been manufacturing systems knocked out due to computer failure at Amedia headquarters in Lillestrøm.
– Our employees are not designed pages, can not send pages to the printer. In addition, you will NOT produced ads, says Nielsen to E24.
– This is pretty bad. It’s no fun to be the editor today. We manufacture cases and output images in other applications, and if you get systems up and running soon we will have time to create a full editorial for our readers tomorrow. Annonnsemessig I think we already have to admit that we are not able to make a full-fledged newspaper Thursday.
updated online newspapers with mobile
Flood damage does that 40 of the 70 local newspapers in Amedia has lacked switching functions, missing e-mails and had trouble updating their online editions Wednesday.
Editors have had to use 3G and mobile phones to get the stuff on the Web.
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CAN NOT GUARANTEE: Communications Stig Finslo and Amedia can not guarantee that all of the group’s newspapers will contain as many pages as planned when they come out tomorrow.
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In addition, ie production sites and advertisements have been significantly delayed.
– 5-6 hours have passed away without having been able to produce as normal, confirming Communications Director Amedia, Stig Finslo.
– This may unfortunately have consequences for tomorrow’s paper. We can not guarantee that we manage to produce so many newspaper pages as planned. The pages of tomorrow’s newspapers will simply be made in a much shorter time than normal
Centralized Lillestrom
Amedia is the country’s second largest media group Schibsted by and far the largest local newspaper group in the country with 70 different titles across the country.
Centralization within the group means that many of the local newspapers functions are controlled from the data center at the basement, even though the papers are scattered around the kingdom.
– This shows that we are very vulnerable. I expect a proper evaluation after this incident, says Rana Blad editor Kirsti M. Nielsen.
– We moved our servers down for just a few months ago. It’s a beautiful summer day with 23 degrees here with us, but we turned out of the rain in eastern Norway. It is a bit paradoxical, she says dry.
– are working hard
Amedia Group
- Amedia is the second largest media group (by Schibsted), and was established in the 27th May 1948 under the name Norwegian Labor Press.
- from 1994 called Group A press before the last year changed its name to Amedia.
- Group is present by far the largest in terms of local newspapers, and wholly or partially over 70 local and regional newspapers and related online newspapers, print shops, local TV stations and local radio channels.
Of the 40 affected newspapers are the major regional newspapers such as Rome Blad, Northern Lights, newspaper and Nordland Oppland Arbeiderblad.
How many of those affected newspapers that would be hard to make as voluminous papers as normal in the morning, can not Finslo estimate now.
– We are now working feverishly to replace some boards in our computer. Once the job is done and it should be fine pretty soon, we’ll be up and running as normal, says Finslo.
But that is with a considerable lag around redkasjonene.
1,500 employees affected
– Dert’s 1,500 employees are affected as a result of the problems we’ve had today. They have not been able to use e-mail or production tools.
cause of problems is water ingress in a cellar on the basement.
– A transformer has been eliminated as a result of flooding, which caused the power went, including in our computer room. Normally, it then switches to another computer room, where our back-up stands. However, one technical problem appeared, so that this transfer did not happen, says Finslo.
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power has long back but the strong power outage this morning meant that several communication control card in the computer system simply was singed off.
– short betrayed both our main solution and back-up. We are working to get swapped out the cards, and everything should be up and running again shortly.
– This should not happen
– Given that you have centralized many of the solutions for their newspapers, this should offence.This equipment better protected against a flood?
– What happened should not happen and we must ensure that it is not going to happen again. We have contingency plans, but in this case failed both at the same time, for various reasons.
– But is it wise to have a central equipment in a basement?
– We will immediately take action and make sure this can never happen again, says Amedia communications director Stig Finslo.
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