Case Study: Journal Communications achieves cloud-based distribution automation and significant cost and FTE savings with Redwood Software's RunMyJobs

Journal communications achieve cloud based distribution automation and coordination

Journal Communications is a century-old multimedia company in Milwaukee that operates radio, television and print properties across 12 states. Its legacy, in-house systems for print operations required many manual steps and constant oversight to meet strict delivery deadlines (newspapers must arrive by 6 AM), and the IT organization needed to reduce complexity and costs as part of a new cloud-first strategy.

Journal adopted Redwood RunMyJobs, a cloud automation service that ties together advertising, circulation and billing across roughly 30 internal systems and hundreds of applications. The platform automates nightly data extraction and file transfers (delivering field reports by 5:30 PM), halves troubleshooting time with built-in auditing, and has dramatically reduced manual effort (from three full-time staff to one part-time), cutting print logistics, billing and distribution costs and enabling broader rollout across the company.

Journal Communications

Brandon Brumfield

Technical Support Analyst