National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Focus on science-based reporting on the vaccine
Jan 5, 2021
This isn’t and shouldn’t be about politics. This is about health reporting and science, and if we don’t have dedicated health reporters — most local news outlets do not, then we ...
Journalists should be counted as ‘essential’ as COVID-19 vaccine begins distribution
Jan 5, 2021
The National Newspaper Association has asked the Centers for Disease Control to make sure journalists are considered a priority group in the distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
NNA welcomes light shined on newspaper delivery woes
Jan 4, 2021
NNA Chair Brett Wesner, president of Wesner Publications in Cordell, Oklahoma, today expressed his thanks to the Washington Post and its postal beat expert Jacob Bogage for a revealing look at the problems ...
Mr. Biden: How about a new push for First Amendment freedoms?
Dec 10, 2020
Gene Policinski talks about the blatant disregard by Chinese officials of free press’ rights in support of democratic principles in Hong Kong and how the U.S. has lost moral high ground globally ...
COVID WIN: $195,000 for small-market newspaper
Dec 1, 2020
The Pilot is a 10,000-circulation paper out of Southern Pines, North Carolina, publishing twice a week. This year was their 100th anniversary, and the COVID pandemic resulted in a year unlike any other. While ...
Go beyond the data and science of COVID-19, write the stories of people affected
Dec 1, 2020
With winter and the holiday season here, the virus is out of control, especially in rural areas, and we’re more at risk than ever — partly because millions of Americans have mistaken beliefs ...
My experience with the PPP loan forgiveness application
Dec 1, 2020
For publishers who were able to get Payroll Protection Plan (PPP) loans last spring and summer and have not applied for forgiveness of those loans, maybe you can benefit from my experience with completing ...
With half the staff in quarantine, we still got out the news
Dec 1, 2020
The last week of September, one of our staffers felt sick but thought it was simply the same change in health that comes with the drop in temperature. COVID-19 slowly and stealthily moved through our office. ...
Thankful we can speak our minds this Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2020
Patty Rhule talks about how during this pandemic-era Thanksgiving, all of the freedoms of the First Amendment should be high on the list when counting our blessings and advice on how to keep political ...
