"The National Newspaper Association is delighted with news of Danielle Coffey’s appointment as News Media Alliance’s new president and CEO," NNA Chair John Galer, publisher of The Journal-Ne...
http://www.nna.org/news-media-alliance-announces-new-president-ceo-danielle-coffey
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA — The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA, AB 886 ) passed out of the California State Assembly today in a floor vote of 46-6. The bill, which was introduced b...
A House Committee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service today received a statement from the National Newspaper Association and others in a broad coalition of mailing and package shipping groups t...
http://www.nna.org/national-newspaper-association-criticizes-relentless-postage-rate-increases
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) led a group of 14 senators in introducing a resolution designating April 2023 as “Preserving and Protecting Local News Month.” The resolution recognizes l...
Have an opinion about something you read in Pub Aux? Want to see content or training on a certain subject? Contact Managing Editor Kate Decker by email at kate@nna.org. Hi Kate, As you may k...
NNA Member Alert: The U.S. Postal Service has reaffirmed that it will require electronic entry of postage statements next year.
http://www.nna.org/hard-copy-postage-statements-will-be-gone-after-jan-28-2024
The U.S. Postal Service has announced another postage increase for July 9 that again sends Periodicals postage into the double-digit zone for annual increases. This mid-year hike will be 8.8% for...
http://www.nna.org/newspaper-mail-hit-hard-again-by-us-postal-service
As reported last month , NNA has participated in efforts to oppose the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-compete agreements. We have learned that the Small Business Administration Office of...
http://www.nna.org/us-small-business-administration-joins-nna-in-opposition-to-ftc-non-compete-ban
NNA Press Release — April 1, 2023 Contact: tonda@nna.org NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS JOURNALISM COMPETITION AND PRESERVATION ACT INTRODUCTION National Newspaper Asso...
Most states require newspapers to have paying subscribers to publish notices, but at least a few grant that authority to free-distribution papers, as well. Those requirements don’t change very ...
http://www.nna.org/newspapers-in-two-states-battle-over-right-to-publish-notices
Adding refundable tax credits to the U.S. Code to help local newspapers became part of the federal legislative dialogue in the 117th Congress. No definitive action was taken on the Local Journali...
http://www.nna.org/where-are-we-with-the-local-journalism-sustainability-act
The U.S. Postal Service continues to post major financial losses, even as new plans crafted under the Delivering for America strategy begin to kick in. For the year beginning Oct. 1, USPS showed ...
The U.S. Postal Service in January announced that it planned to eliminate use of sacks for most Periodicals mailings, but complications from a wide array of mailer practices caused the policy to ...
http://www.nna.org/nna-member-alert-usps-again-clarifies-no-sack-policy
NNA Industry Alert Contact: tonda@nna.org The National Newspaper Association today requested changes in the Postal Service’s plan to eliminate hard-copy Periodicals mailing statements (Form 3...
http://www.nna.org/national-newspaper-association-pushes-back-on-ending-hard-copy-postage-statements
Steve Waldman, Chair, Rebuild Local News Coalition, has asked that we spread the good work of Diane Kennedy, president, NYNPA (along with the News Guild and others ) and ask for help from our New...
http://www.nna.org/nna-new-york-newspapers-we-need-your-help-contacting-your-governor-regarding-ljsa
NNA member alert — The U.S. Postal Service has notified its workforce of plans to continue consolidating the carrier workforce ...
USPS had earlier indicated it would end the printed notices for all mailers, but in its final rule ...
http://www.nna.org/usps-announces-final-end-date-for-hard-copy-address-notices
Early this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a rulemaking to ban the use of non-compete agreements. This began what is expected to be a flood of regulatory actions that pose chal...
http://www.nna.org/nna-opposes-ftc-rule-to-ban-non-compete-agreements
Good afternoon, Kate! As you may know, the National Newspaper Association Institute recently joined a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Cour...
The U.S. Postal Service will soon be required to provide an online reporting system that will detail service standard achievements and failures for Periodicals and other mail classes (see here )....
http://www.nna.org/better-and-more-visible-data-on-service-failures-to-come