Promoting news literacy, protecting the First Amendment
and enhancing the capabilities of community newspapers
Tonda Rush is the director of public policy and serves as general counsel to the National Newspaper Association. Email her at tonda@nna.org.
May 1, 2023
Q: Real estate ads are starting to pick up a little. What do we need to watch for?
Jan 1, 2023
Q: I have spent thousands of dollars building my brand on a Facebook business page. I use it to drive traffic to my website and to sell my publication to customers. Suddenly, without warning, Facebook ...
Dec 1, 2022
Q: A reader recently shared a video taken from her car video camera of a breaking news event. What should we be concerned about before we decide to use it?
Sep 1, 2022
There have been disputes over the years about whether privacy rights protect the object of your lens if YOU are in public but your subject is not, such as instances where you use a telephoto lens to shoot ...
Aug 1, 2022
Q: A reader sent a letter to the editor on a topic of great controversy in our community. Then, after thinking more about it, the reader told us not to publish. But we have the letter. We have the ...
Feb 1, 2022
The disappearing police scanner has been a topic for journalists since 9-11. That is because the need for a national communications policy to bring federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement and ...
Nov 1, 2021
Q. Does the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration require a business to mandate vaccinations now?
Oct 1, 2021
Now comes the question — what if you send a fax to someone with whom you do not have an established business relationship and it contains a little bit of advertising, like a tag line about your special ...
Aug 1, 2021
Q. With so many employees now seeking work-from-home status, our situation is complicated. Our circulation area is near a state border, so some of our employees live in another state. When they were ...