National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Who we are and why we matter
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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.
Bill Blauvelt is nostalgic for the glory days and hopeful for the future
Apr 1, 2021
Bill Blauvelt is both melancholy for newspapers’ glory days of the past and hopeful for a new golden era in journalism as he churns out his three newspapers week after week on his 60-year-old Goss ...
Archbold Buckeye: A lifelong calling for employees
Feb 1, 2021
Huber, a former math teacher, joined the newspaper in 1987 as ad director, the first ever at the Buckeye. Pugh was already on board, working as a reporter. The two bought the multi-generational, family ...
Alamance News battles for access to protest events and court hearings
Jan 5, 2021
Reporter arrested and publisher placed in handcuffs
Covering your community during crisis
Oct 30, 2020
At the NNA Annual Convention, a roundtable discussion titled “Covering Your Community During Crisis,” might as well have been called “Loving Your Community During Crisis,” because ...
‘It was the best time to start a newspaper’
Oct 30, 2020
Cathie Shaffer launches Greenup Gazette in northeast Kentucky
NNA joins 180 small business groups urging deductibility of Paycheck Protection business expenses
Aug 5, 2020
National Newspaper Association joined the Parity for Main Street Employers coalition supporting relief from the Treasury Department’s intention to impose taxes on payroll, rent, mortgage interest ...
Rising star Lloyd Mullen reflects on newspaper ownership
Jul 29, 2020
For Lloyd Mullen, ink runs in his veins. He has newspapers in his DNA. As part of the Mullen family, which has been publishing newspapers for 35 years, he has devoted his life to the industry. Last spring, ...
Courier-Journal editor draws inspiration from 2020 Pulitzer Prize win
Jul 1, 2020
Green recalls Dec. 2, 2019, as the day his newsroom got a tip that then-Governor of Kentucky Matt Bevins was slated to pardon and commute the sentences of more than 600 people who had been convicted of ...
The little things in life sustain the West Essex (NJ) Tribune
Jul 1, 2020
Publisher Jenny Cone Chciuk rescued Georgie from an animal shelter last spring, and she says during these challenging times, the puppy is uniquely qualified for her job description, which mainly focuses ...
