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What is a community newspaper and what is the NNA/NNAF doing to help keep them relevant? It takes a healthy community to support a healthy newspaper. But a healthy newspaper can also promote a healthy community. It takes hands-on idea development, good news coverage and creative spirits to help communities and newspapers to thrive.

We are using our peer networks to support each other through tough times - Great Ideas Exchange, Facebook Community Forum, Journalism Training, Postal Training and Convention. We are using our limited resources to give the industry new tools. We are looking around corners to help both communities and newspapers. The key to the thriving community newspaper is investment—not just of money, but of time, energy, creativity and our own community like NNA and others that are helping us through a tough time.

Defying the odds

Sep 1, 2025

When Barb Shepherd, Eileen Everett and Joann Kramer launched a weekly newspaper in Florida, they were low on funding but rich in hopes and dreams; 30 years later, it’s going strong

Judgment, brains and maturity

Sep 1, 2025

I have been thinking back to the 15-year-old me, who had learned a few magic tricks and was convinced he was ready to enter the stage contest at the Texas Association of Magicians convention.

Inside the Nome (Alaska) Nugget

Jun 25, 2025

The staff of The Nome (Alaska) Nugget created this video to showcase the newspaper and who they are ...

Focusing on the future: With a nod to the past, Austin Lewter applies traditional journalism values to the modern platforms of today and tomorrow

May 1, 2025

At 42, Austin Lewter has played a role in community newspapers for nearly three-quarters of his life, starting as a pre-teen photojournalist at the newspaper he now owns with his wife, Jennifer.

Documentary film tells the story of a small-town Texas newspaper, the heart and soul of its community for 130 years, and its struggle to survive

Apr 1, 2025

“I realized that the real story was about Laurie, her newspaper, the staff working there, the readers and the town,” Documentary filmmaker Heather Courtney said. “I wanted to write about ...