National Newspaper Association
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Wesner: How a little catfish started a public notice discussion
Dec 1, 2020
The frecklebelly madtom is a small catfish that inhabits waterways in several southern states. In November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it considered the fish endangered and began ...
Leave ‘legals’ alone
Oct 30, 2020
If this partnership is broken, a huge measure of public confidence in its government will be lost. Without the independent newspaper publishing the information for all to see, public assurances that the ...
NNA ISSUE BRIEF: Broadband gaps grow during COVID-19 pandemic
Aug 5, 2020
"Now, with people working at home and lacking access to libraries and restaurants, internet access is a growing problem,” Adelman said.
NNA launches public notice house ad contest
Mar 13, 2020
The National Newspaper Association is launching a house ad contest — with a focus on the importance of public notices in newspapers. The winning NNA member-newspaper graphic artist will receive ...
How access to public records is being threatened by police union contracts
Mar 6, 2020
Collective bargaining agreements that require the destruction of officer misconduct records violate the values of open government.
National Newspaper Association joins request for openness at US Supreme Court
Jan 1, 2020
National Newspaper Association has joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, National Public Radio and 50 other media organizations to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to put tighter limits on ...
Newspapers removed from broadcasters' public notice requirement
Oct 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Communications Commission in September unanimously voted to remove from newspapers the public notices previously required by broadcasters seeking to acquire or renew ...
Poor customer service sabotages newspaper notice in Indiana
Dec 27, 2018
When the Air Quality Division of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced a proposal last year to move all of its public notice advertising from newspapers to its own website, its motivation ...
How newspaper notice is supposed to work
Oct 22, 2018
When the Board of Elections in majority-black Randolph County, GA, introduced a proposal this summer to close seven of the county’s nine polling places, many residents were angry. Some even accused ...
