La Nación aligns print production with its digital-first newsroom

Founded in 1870 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, La Nación operates across print, digital and radio, serving almost 65,000 print subscribers and 220,000 digital subscribers. Its portfolio includes La Nación and Rolling Stone Argentina.

The starting point for the project was a legacy print production system that had become increasingly difficult to maintain, with no clear upgrade path alongside newer Adobe Creative Cloud releases. At the same time, La Nación wanted a solution that would fit naturally into its digital-first editorial operation built around Arc XP.

Rather than replacing existing processes overnight, La Nación introduced Roxen gradually over a six-month period. The rollout began with weekly supplements before expanding into dynamic templates for major daily sections, including news and sports. The templates were developed by La Nación’s own design team, allowing the newspaper to build on existing design principles while adapting them to a more efficient production process.

Today, around 100 journalists, editors and photographers work directly in Roxen, while content created in Arc XP flows seamlessly into print through the integration. Editors can choose layouts, assemble pages and manage production from a single environment while maintaining the flexibility required in a modern newsroom.

“Roxen has really changed the way our newsroom works. Journalists and editors have more autonomy, and the integration with Arc XP and Adobe InDesign has been extremely useful – it simply works,” says Zurutuza.

One of the most significant changes has been the ability to plan and produce well ahead of deadline.

“The big shift is that our staff can work ahead of time. Editors can be working on Saturday’s edition already on Wednesday. That changes the way they plan their workflow – it is more efficient, more autonomous, and remote work is no longer an issue,” says Zurutuza.

For a digital-first newsroom, the result is a print production process that is more closely aligned with the way editorial teams already work, while preserving the flexibility and design quality that remain essential to the printed product.