Briefs

*Gannett moves presses: With one Gannett Co. Inc. California daily shifting its presswork to a third party, the company is moving that paper's presses to another of its properties, it said earlier this month. Presses from the Salinas Californian, an 11,100-circulation paper published in Monterey County, are being moved to the Visalia Times-Delta, about 180 miles away in Tulare County. The Californian outsourced its presswork to Southwest Offset Printing of San Jose in September; Southwest also prints the Northern California edition of Gannett's USA Today. The Goss Urbanite presses in Salinas and Visalia were installed almost simultaneously in 1985, and so the four units moving from Salinas will match up perfectly with the 10 units already producing the 20,818-circulation Times-Delta. The Visalia plant also prints Tulare Advance-Register, El Sol and other specialty publications and has a robust job-printing operation. "We're excited -- this is a substantial investment," Amy Pack, president and publisher of the Times-Delta, told a reporter. "Our advertisers and commercial print customers will be the beneficiaries." *Dow Jones collects on pirating: The web site Briefing.com paid Dow Jones & Co. Inc. "a substantial amount" and admitted liability in settling a case with the financial news service, it was reported last week. The site admitted it copied and posted on its pages "more than 100 articles," violating Dow Jones' copyright. Briefing.com, a web site that provides "live market analysis," also admitted it violated Dow Jones' rights under the "hot news" doctrine -- a 1918 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says that those who invest in gathering original reporting have an exclusive right to that reporting for a limited period of time. Dow Jones alleged that Chicago-based Briefing.com frequently took its breaking-news headlines and wire copy and posted it without attribution or compensation. "This settlement demonstrates that such actions are not resolved with a simple slap on the wrist, but have significant financial repercussions," said Mark Jackson, Dow Jones' general counsel.