Successful presentation at the European Publishing Congress 2025: Rheinische Post reports on automated page production with InterRed

01.07.2025

In order to make this content accessible to an international audience, the presentation was transcribed into English and re-recorded with AI-generated voices. The session is now also available as a podcast.

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Manuel Terpelle (Senior Consultant, InterRed) and Martina Stöcker (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Rheinische Post Media Group) © InterRed

Under the title ‘Colleague Kiki and Grandma – Rheinische Post's experiences with automated page production’, they gave a practical description of how they successfully integrated SmartPaper into editorial production – with measurable efficiency gains, high editorial acceptance and no compromises in quality or journalistic control. Eighteen local editions are now automated, supplemented by local sports and cover pages.

The combination of intelligent template page selection (OMA) and selective use of AI (‘Colleague Kiki’) ensures lean processes without losing the editorial team's signature style. Find out how this works in practice, why print remains relevant – and what other publishers can learn from it – in the podcast.

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