NNA News
Saturday delivery proposal stalls
July 8, 2014
An early summer proposition by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA, to provide a temporary fix to the ailing Highway Transportation Fund through paper savings from canceling Saturday mail delivery appears to be dead. The proposal had the support of the U.S. Postal Service.
Closing 80+ Mail Processing Plants and Degrading Periodicals/First-Class Mail Service: a Recipe for More Lost Business for USPS
July 3, 2014
National Newspaper Association President Robert M. Williams Jr., publisher of the Blackshear (GA) Times, strongly objected this week to the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement that it would close or consolidate more than 80 mail processing facilities after January and lower service standards for Periodicals and First-Class Mail.
NNA's 2014 newspaper contest winners announced
July 2, 2014
Judging results have been processed and winners of the National Newspaper Association 2014 Better Newspaper Contest and Better Newspaper Advertising Contest have been posted online at nnaweb.org.
3 candidates nominated for NNA regional directorships
June 9, 2014
Matt Paxton, Susan Rowell and Tom Mullen have been nominated for National Newspaper Association regional directorships.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a—drone?
June 6, 2014
What someone thinks of drones depends on two things: Who it’s pointed at and who’s holding the controller.
Sentiment turns against NSA’s bulk data collection
June 6, 2014
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, feels misled.
NNAF program brings young journalists to DC
June 6, 2014
For Averi Haugesag, the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s News Fellow program provided a unique opportunity to delve into national security and privacy issues surrounding the National Security Agency and use that information in the best tradition of community journalism: to write about the large-scale drone program being developed at her home University of North Dakota and nearby Grand Forks Air Force Base.
Publishers’ front-page protest produces positive result
June 6, 2014
Community newspapers across America organized what appears to have been a successful protest to get the Newseum in Washington, to include community newspapers in its Today’s Front Pages exhibit.
McCaslin wins lifetime achievement award
May 6, 2014
Executive Editor Deb McCaslin, of the Broken Bow Custer County Chief, received the Lifetime Achievement in Volunteer Service Award at the 2014 First Lady’s Outstanding Community Service Awards Luncheon, held April 11, at the University of Nebraska in Omaha and sponsored by Serve Nebraska.
Mentoring young journalists has rewards
May 6, 2014
Is journalism dead? Some would say so. Many think it already has gone along with the land line telephone.
