National Newspaper Association
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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.
Missouri newspapers flaunt bipartisan banners and showcase colorful histories
May 28, 2020
On a late-April day, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Dennis Warden was holding down the fort at the Gasconade County Republican of Owensville, Missouri. His skeleton crew was out doing their jobs, and ...
Retiring for the second time, Donna Hunt seeks her third act chronicling hometown history
Mar 1, 2020
At 84, Donna Hunt has wrapped up the first two acts of an amazing career. Yet, she believes she still has more to give to Denison, Texas, her hometown, where she was born, raised and carved out her niche ...
Small but mighty, this Eagle soars
Feb 3, 2020
You might say The (Chadron State College) Eagle is a journeyman’s newspaper, where students build solid skills and graduate ready for work. Eagle adviser Michael Kennedy, who also teaches journalism ...
In the heart of Alabama’s literary capital, Monroeville Journal is a family’s labor of love
Sep 1, 2019
Today, Bo Bolton is the owner and publisher of the storied Monroe Journal in Monroeville, Alabama, a small, rural, picturesque community in the Piney Woods region of southwestern Alabama and home ...
Feisty Idaho Mountain Express thrives in tough environment
Aug 1, 2019
Newspapers are getting a bad rap these days, but in Blaine County, readers appreciate the Mountain Express, according to Morris.
Jennifer Rash Lane’s labor of love to make her grandfather proud
Jun 1, 2019
“On newspaper day, it would be my sister, Heather, my grandma and me, and we’d load up the newspapers, and we’d get in grandpa’s truck. There was no air conditioning, so we’d ...
Jessica Westerman, a rookie publisher who is making a difference one page at a time
May 1, 2019
Westerman, who is an experienced multimedia developer, had no experience running a business or editing a newspaper when she took over the tiny weekly after its former owner decided to stop publishing it.
In Asbury Park and beyond, The Coaster covers the nooks and crannies
Mar 1, 2019
From garden clubs to rock and roll, Black History Month to local government, the newspaper’s tiny staff spreads itself thin to cover Monmouth County’s two cities and eight boroughs and townships.
