National Newspaper Association
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Ownership
Insight for owners regarding prospective buyers, effective ownership structure, etc.
10 northwest newspapers have a new owner, SmallTownPapers Inc.
Jan 15, 2021
Company commits to scan entire archive for free public access
‘It has been an adventure that we could not have dreamed up’
Jan 5, 2021
Mullens purchase Bitterroot Star from Howells
Mullen acquires weeklies in three states
Dec 1, 2020
J. Louis Mullen has added titles in three states: The Emmons County Record in Linton, North Dakota; the Prairie Pioneer in Pollock, South Dakota; and Harlan Newspapers in Iowa.
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 ...
The power to tax is the power to destroy — PPP deductibility must be fixed now
Nov 20, 2020
Unemployment this year hit nearly 15% — the highest the nation has seen since the Great Depression. If businesses had not kept their payrolls running through PPP, unemployment would have zoomed ...
‘It was the best time to start a newspaper’
Oct 30, 2020
Cathie Shaffer launches Greenup Gazette in northeast Kentucky
Free, but not free
Sep 1, 2020
That’s because there has to be such a thing as a free press. If we did not have a free press, we would not have a free country. If we did not have an institution dedicated to employing and defending ...
The Story of The News-Gazette in Lexington, Virginia
Sep 1, 2020
The Lexington-Rockbridge County area has a newspaper tradition almost as old as the town and county itself. Less than 25 years after the founding of the city of Lexington and Rockbridge County in 1777, ...
With only $400 in the bank, new owner brings a small-town Minnesota newspaper back from the dead
Sep 1, 2020
Pam Bluhm started working at the Chatfield News 40 years ago, barely out of high school, thinking it would be all right until something better came along. Something better never did come along. And now ...
