News Makers

Saxotech, a local firm at the forefront of solving the newspaper industry's foremost challenge — how to make money from online news delivery — brings one quirk to the process.

The quirk: Tampa-based Saxotech has never published a printed newspaper. The firm's CEO, furthermore, doesn't come from a media background, and many of the company's employees are software developers and engineers.

Yet Saxotech's proprietary system, which adds an element of workflow management and efficiency to the sometimes antiquated processes of a newsroom, is the buzz of the newspaper industry. Nancy Lane, president of the Suburban Newspapers of America, an industry trade group, says Saxotech has become a popular entity at trade shows.