Public Notice news

Survey: 81% read public notices in their local paper

Jun 16, 2014

Two-thirds (67%) of residents in small cities and towns in the U.S. read a local newspaper ranging from 1 day to 7 days a week, according to the 2013 Community Newspaper Readership Study conducted by The ...

PNRC names first national public notice journalism award winner

Apr 11, 2014

The Mitchell (SD) Daily Republic has been named the first recipient of the PNRC’s national Public Notice Journalism Award for 2014. The newspaper is recognized for a series inaugurated by an alert ...

Free Flow of Information Act gains toehold

Oct 1, 2013

WASHINGTON—The Free Flow of Information Act moved successfully through the Senate Committee on the Judiciary with a 13-5 vote in September.

New federal regulations may freeze foreclosures for 4 months

Sep 10, 2013

Newspapers that have already faced much disruption in their public notice business for foreclosures may be about to face another shock. The mortgage foreclosure process will freeze for many types of loans ...

Newspapers, NC state Senate battle over public notice

May 3, 2013

As if a state Senate committee hearing in Raleigh, NC, was not already tense, it grew downright contentious after legislators narrowly voted to approve a bill that would allow local governments in a dozen ...

Public notice on the list of state legislatures

Feb 1, 2013

State legislatures all around America are coming into session this winter and many will face pressure from local governments to permit them to eliminate public notice in newspapers and instead post information ...

TX paper is dedicated to public notice

Jun 5, 2012

Tiffany Waddell, co-owner and publisher of The Western Observer, a small community newspaper covering Jones County, TX, has developed eye-catching public notice ads to help alert the community about local ...