NNA features blogs dealing with the important issues facing community newspapers across the country. Our bloggers include Jock Lauterer, director of the Carolina Community Media Project and professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The Blue Highways Journal chronicles Lauterer’s travels across North Carolina. Also featured is Brian Steffens, the executive director of the National Newspaper Association, whose Community Newspapers News & Notes offers occasional, irregular postings of news and notes to those interested in NNA and the community newspaper industry.
NNA provides its members with content they can reprint in their papers or on their websites. This content includes First Amendment columns or editorials from the Freedom Forum, available weekly, and reports on the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond from Michael Yon, who writes dispatches from the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever the action takes him, including photos.
NNA produces e-mail newsletters that are delivered right to your e-mail inbox, including the weekly rE-print, featuring a roundup of news of interest to community newspapers that you may not have time to track down for yourself, and the occasional RJI Research for the Newsroom, featuring research information compiled by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
NNA’s best and brightest publishers have made the Great Ideas session of the Annual Convention a huge hit for more than a decade. These terrific success stories, along with other great ideas we find throughout the year, are available to NNA members 24/7. And, members are encouraged to submit and share their great ideas at any time to grow this valuable resource.
Promote your community newspapers with these customizable house ads. NNA has produced a series of house ads based on our latest market research. House ads from other sources are also presented.
The National Newspaper Association monitors, evaluates and analyzes trends affecting the community newspaper industry through annual research conducted in partnership with the Center for Advanced Social Research of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. NNA often creates house ads, promotions and presentation materials from its research for members to use in their communities. Highlights of NNA’s research can be found in the About community newspapers section of this website.
NNA's Job Exchange is your one-stop shop for all your employment needs--post help wanted ads, view openings at newspapers across the country or post your resume if you're in the job market. Manage your employment needs on your own time--24/7 and your ads are posted immediately.
Research commissioned by the National Newspaper Association shows that, unlike some larger market newspapers, the future of community newspapers is strong. To assist member newspapers get this information out to prospective advertisers, NNA has created components for a media kit that members can download and customize for their markets.
Who knows the challenges and opportunities facing community newspaper publishers better than another publisher? That's why NNA started its Members Helping Members Program. Another publisher may have the answer to one of your pressing challenges. And you just may have the answer to someone else's question. Skip re-inventing the wheel and move quickly to opportunities and solutions.
Publishers' Auxiliary (Pub Aux) is the only national publication serving America's community newspapers. First published in 1865, Publishers' Auxiliary is also the oldest newspaper serving the newspaper industry.
The Internet has a vast number of free resources that can be of use to community newspaper publishers, editors, advertising staff, photographers — everyone involved in producing quality community newspapers. NNA staff has found and organized these links and resources for member use, 24/7, so members don’t have to spend hours or days scouring the web for these resources.
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Book your travel through NNA's Travel Network. You can reserve your flight, rent a car, make hotel reservations, even make arrangements for cruises and vacations. Find the best deals on travel, check your flight itinerary online, check into your flight online or purchase travel insurance.
A list of webinars available to NNA members. Are you providing a webinar or know of one that might be of interest to NNA members? List it here.
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