National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Public Policy
The National Newspaper Association’s mission is to protect, promote and enhance American’s community newspapers.
NNA needs the support of every community newspaper in order to work closely with policy officials to create a legal and regulatory environment conducive to the growth of community newspapers.
Postal
NNA works daily on postal issues that affect community newspapers. Its goals are to achieve fair rates, efficient service and a level competitive playing field between newspapers and direct mail competitors.
Public 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 entities. Public notices have been included in newspapers from the beginning of the Republic. Now they are also on many newspapers’ websites.
Join the Congressional Action Team
The Congressional Action Team (CAT) is NNA's grassroots team composed of newspaper publishers from across the country who volunteer to contact their Senators and Representatives when legislation affecting community newspapers is introduced or when legislative activity is necessary. CAT members are asked to simply call their members of Congress or write a letter to express their concerns on behalf of community newspapers. All newspaper publishers who are members of the National Newspaper Association may join. To join, email lynne@nna.org.
US Census commodity flow survey sent to some newspapers
Apr 22, 2022
MEMBER ALERT — The U.S. Census has recently sent letters and/or electronic messages to a number of newspapers requiring answers to the periodic Commodity Flow Survey, a tool that Census uses to ...
Newspaper mailers not saved from dramatic postage increases by postal reform
Apr 6, 2022
The U.S. Postal Service today announced it would hike Periodicals postage rates an average of 8.5% for Periodicals on July 10, 2022, disappointing publishers who expected passage of the Postal Service ...
Newspaper promotions at Within-County mailing rate can begin
Apr 6, 2022
President Joe Biden today signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which implements reforms of federal employee benefit programs and shaves more than $50 billion off the USPS balance sheet. It also ...
Congress passes Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, but ‘our work is not done’
Apr 1, 2022
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The National Newspaper Association capped a decade-and-a-half legislative campaign in March when Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.
Higher salary threshold for exempt employees on the horizon again
Apr 1, 2022
The Biden Administration’s Department of Labor is expected to propose a higher salary threshold for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Newspaper readers are voters; voters ‘hungry’ for ‘professional integrity’
Mar 28, 2022
In monitoring current events and political updates, community newspapers continue to grow in trustworthiness (7.38/10) and newspaper readers are voters (96%), Susquehanna Polling and Research Inc. found ...
NNA/NNAF Readership Survey 2022 (members only)
Mar 28, 2022
The survey of 1,000 adults from rural and urban communities across the U.S. conducted for the National Newspaper Association and NNA Foundation of Pensacola, Florida, voting habits, news consumption, opinion ...
Set virtual meetings with your Congressional delegations March 15-17
Mar 17, 2022
The CAT Summit is NNA’s premier public policy event of the year. Share your views and newspaper industry positions with Capitol Hill and key policymakers.
Congress passes long-awaited postal reform legislation
Mar 8, 2022
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, HR 3076, cleared the U.S. Senate today, sending legislation to President Biden that would give the U.S. Postal Service relief from a 16-year-old requirement to fund ...
