National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Content for Member Papers
NNA provides its members with content they can reprint in their papers or on their websites. This content includes First Amendment columns or editorials from the Freedom Forum, available weekly.
Not all local content is created equal
Mar 1, 2020
Local communities have many of the same challenges as newspapers: stagnant or declining revenues while expenses are increasing. As a result, many of our local communities are struggling and even ...
The First Amendment protects activities adjacent to voting, but stops short of voting itself
Feb 27, 2020
The First Amendment protects your right to express yourself freely. While you can do a lot of different things with that freedom, its highest purpose, and the reason that the Constitution's framers ...
NIE serial story available to NNA members
Feb 1, 2020
The National Newspaper Association Foundation and the Missouri Press Foundation have been teaming up to produce an annual free Newspapers In Education (NIE) serial story for years. This year’s eight-installment ...
It is time to recognize the journalists who gave their all
Jul 1, 2019
An editorial by the National Newspaper Association WASHINGTON, D.C. — World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle died during the invasion of Okinawa in 1945. In his pocket was a draft of his last ...
Are you a ‘Thalidomide Baby’?
Jun 17, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — US Thalidomide Survivors, a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is looking for people born between 1957 and 1963 with defects possibly caused by their mother ...
History’s greatest war correspondent columns available to NNA members
May 9, 2019
The son of a tenant farming parents in west-central Indiana, Ernie Pyle became history’s greatest war correspondent. When Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the tiny Pacific island ...
We Should Protest Proposed Restrictions on White House Protests
Oct 19, 2018
The White House. To the world, it's the image of the United States.
Can Brennan make a First Amendment case? Yes, to 'us'
Aug 28, 2018
Does former CIA director John Brennan have a First Amendment case against President Trump for pulling Brennan's national security clearance?
'Enemies of the people?' Simply, plainly – 'no'
Aug 16, 2018
A free press brings us the news of the day, from weather to Wall Street, and when done properly functions as a "watchdog on government." The public expects that first part, and the First Amendment — ...
