Today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a final ruling on extending mandatory overtime pay, increasing the salary threshold for employees who perform duties that classify them as exempt fr...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lynne Lance, executive director, lynne@nna.org PENSACOLA, FLORIDA — The July 2024 proposed Periodicals rate increase amounts to an almost 10% bump for communit...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lynne Lance, executive director, lynne@nna.org Three years of planning and effort by the National Newspaper Association and its partners resulted this weekend in...
http://www.nnaweb.org/congress-approves-nna-language-directing-hhs-advertising-to-community-media
As your new public policy manager, I am so excited to join the NNA team. Depending on how things go in Washington this year, we could make some headway on critical issues like postal reform and t...
USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy honors Tonda Rush, NNA legal counsel, at her last Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) meeting in Washington, D.C. Rush is retiring in 2024 after 30+ ye...
EFFECTIVE: JANUARY 28, 2024 To provide mailers additional time to comply with the discontinuance of hardcopy postage statements policy change, there will be a limited-time grace period. During ...
NNA MEMBER ALERT Contact: Lynne Lance, lynne@nna.org The U.S. Postal Service is reminding commercial mailers that the end is near for hard-copy postage statements. Publishers who have compl...
http://www.nnaweb.org/are-you-ready-to-file-postage-statements-digitally
Waiting for invoice payments to show up in your mailbox … and waiting … and waiting? There might be a reason for that, and it isn’t because your customers are suddenly slow–payers.
National Newspaper Association members are hard at work planning the next Annual Convention & Trade Show — our 138th — this September 26-28, 2024, in Omaha, Nebraska. On Oct. 26, convention...
The landscape of social media is undergoing a transformation as Big Tech faces challenges from privacy regulations and heightened user concerns. The industry's future rests on navigating evolving...
NNA Industry Alert Contact: lynne@nna.org The National Newspaper Association's Executive Director Lynne Lance has announced a new public policy manager to succeed Tonda Rush, who managed the ass...
http://www.nnaweb.org/a-new-member-is-joining-our-nna-family-lisa-mcgraw
In November, the National Newspaper Association joined 244 other small business organizations urging the Biden administration to rethink its proposed 69% increase in the salary levels necessary f...
The U.S. Postal Service posted a $6.5 billion loss in fiscal year 2023. Its key mail classes have lost more than 27% in volume over the last two years. The dismal results, coming at a time when...
http://www.nnaweb.org/postal-losses-continue-despite-sharp-postage-increases
Townships in Ohio are seeking the same power already granted to municipalities in the state: the power to publish notice via the internet instead of a local newspaper. Introduced late last week...
http://www.nnaweb.org/move-to-government-websites-picks-up-steam-in-ohio
“My life is flashing before my eyes,” Tonda Rush, NNA legal counsel, said as she joined a Zoom meeting on the premise of discussing scholarship opportunities, only to see decades of NNA past ...
http://www.nnaweb.org/industry-groups-create-scholarship-honoring-tonda-rush
The House Appropriations Committee is poised to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to direct more of the agency’s advertising dollar toward local media, including nondaily newspa...
http://www.nnaweb.org/hhs-directed-to-look-at-local-media-for-advertising-buys
Dear NNA Member, It was with a mix of excitement and sorrow that I informed NNA’s Board of Directors this fall that the time for the next step in my retirement has come. NNA will engage a new...
The Nevada Supreme Court handed news media organizations a victory in October by ruling that the reporter’s shield law continues to apply, even after the death of the reporter. The dispute aros...
http://www.nnaweb.org/despite-other-incursions-this-year-nevada-court-upholds-shield-law
Last month, we reported that through the end of the summer there were no states that had approved legislation significantly altering their public notice laws (https://bit.ly/3s6f6ez ). Sadly, we ...
http://www.nnaweb.org/ohio-enacts-law-curtailing-newspaper-notice
Public notices in newspapers are part of the three-legged stool of government accountability. Public notices help to inform the public on activities by the government and other public entiti...