Your Right To Know is in Danger
Imagine a world without newspapers, where there's no coverage of local government, no human interest stories to enliven and give texture to communities, no stories about local sports teams and none of...
View ArticleUSPS plan meddles in the market
The newspaper business – both small and large papers – across the country has sounded full-throated opposition this past month about a plan by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to purposely entice...
View ArticleUSPS Valassis deal undercuts community news
By Reed AnfinsonPresident | NNA They say there is no more dangerous animal than one that is wounded. It protects its life and territory through the pain with dangerous and unpredictable behavior....
View ArticleA junk deal
The U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission recently approved a deal with junk mail peddlers that cuts rates—up to 40 percent—for direct mail companies to move their preprinted advertisements through the...
View ArticleUnsavory competition
The newspaper business has been hit this past month with a plan by the United States Postal Service to entice advertising to a major national USPS-favored advertising firm, Valassis, which bought the...
View ArticlePostal monopoly should not be allowed to pick winners, losers in the free market
The newspaper business—from the largest daily to the smallest of weekly publications—has sounded full-throated opposition this past month about a plan by the U.S. Postal Service that would essentially...
View ArticleYour Right To Know Is in Danger
By Harry Bradley, Publisher and Mary-Justine Lanyon, EditorMountain News, Lake Arrowhead, CAImagine a world without newspapers, where there's no coverage of local government, no human interest stories...
View ArticleWeeklies face major challenges with postal decision
By Alan BakerPublisher | The Ellsworth American and The Mount Desert IslanderWith a strong regional daily publishing 25 miles away in the next county, our two weeklies, The Ellsworth American and Mount...
View ArticleSaturday mail loss stings worst in small towns
By Tonda F. RushCEO | NNA Why do small town newspapers publish on Saturdays? The Saturday paper isn’t only for football as it is in many Texas towns, said Mary Judson, publisher of the Port Aransas...
View ArticleRural mail will suffer with more mail plant closures
Dear NNA Member, Today, on the second business day of the new year, the mail has officially been slowed down. USPS added an additional day to its expected service standards for much of its mail. This...
View ArticleWe count on the mail
(Editor's note: Newspapers are encouraged to reprint this editorial.) By Chip HutchesonPresident/National Newspaper Association andPublisher/The Times Leader, Princeton, KY I got the mail today.A...
View ArticleSlow Mail Costs Money
By Matthew Paxton IV, publisher of The News-Gazette, Lexington, VA and Immediate Past President of the National Newspaper Association Most people get mail every day, Monday through Saturday. But what...
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