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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.
Stevenson family sells 4 Wyoming/Nebraska newspapers to Adelman family
Dec 1, 2025
The Stevenson family, owners of Sidney (Nebraska) Sun Telegraph, The Saratoga (Wyoming) Sun, Pine Bluffs (Wyoming) Post and Western Nebraska Observer in Kimball, Nebraska, have sold the newspapers to the ...
Passing the Torch
Nov 1, 2025
After 2 generations of publishing a Tennessee weekly, the Gentry family sells to a former employee
Publisher's Letter: Not Them. Us.
Oct 6, 2025
Dear reader, I want you to think back to a moment in your life when you felt fear about money. Perhaps you were laid off and watched your savings dwindle. Maybe a medical emergency emptied your bank account. ...
Saving the Press: Publishers rescue Wyoming newspapers from shutting down to keep the heart and soul of their communities strong
Oct 1, 2025
Days after eight small Wyoming towns were rescued from the brink of losing their weekly newspapers, a reader contacted the new owners with a simple request.
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 ...
