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NAA opposes moving public notices
out of local newspapers
Last week, the Newspaper Association of America joined the National Newspaper Association and the American Court and Commercial Newspapers in submitting comments to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice opposing proposed changes to their public notice rules. Both agencies would allow for the publication of public notices, related to changes in Medicaid benefits and to forfeitures by law enforcement agencies, only on government websites.
The newspaper groups argued that changing public notice rules to allow for publication only on government websites would limit government transparency and public knowledge. Government websites do not have the same audience reach as local newspapers (and their websites), and many segments of the population such as the poor, minorities and senior citizens do not have access to the Internet.
The comments made clear that the newspaper groups do not oppose Internet notice . Many people have access to the Internet and visit government websites. However, it is inappropriate to move public notices entirely out of printed newspapers as this would diminish the public's right to know about important government actions.
NAA will continue to work with other newspaper groups to monitor similar public notice proposals.
How America Shops and Spends
The latest in the ongoing series from NAA of consumer studies investigates consumer shopping habits and the influence media has on shopping today. The 2011 research reveals new insights into shopping planning and behavior. The study also reports on consumer engagement of media and deals with the use of preprinted inserts, couponing and digital media tool. Read the study
NNA 2011 Newspaper Contest Winners Announced
New Mexico newspapers won the second most combined awards by state with 72 - congrats to all the winners. Lists of winners by division, newspaper and state are available at nnaweb.org
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AP to Provide Additional Crediting in Stories
by: The Associated Press
Starting Aug. 1, The Associated Press will offer additional credit to other news organizations when it picks up their stories for the AP wire.
This change will be noticeable mainly on the websites of AP's member newspapers and other sites that offer AP State News Reports.
Mike Oreskes, AP's senior managing editor for U.S. news, explained the change today in the following staff memo and accompanying FAQs. Full Story
Rural Papers are Weathering Change in Media, Says Stanford Report
The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University has just published an analysis of rural newspapers, including an interactive map showing 300 years of American papers. Created by a team of journalists working together with scholars and students from Stanford's history and computer science departments, the visualization tracks the growth of media from Boston's Publick Occurrences in 1690 to more than 10,000 publications in print today. Full story
The newsonomics of defense and offense
Paywalls Help Newspapers Bolster Print Side
As publishers peered into the paid content darkness a year ago, they first confronted their fears. Primary among them: What if they lost so much traffic that their online ad revenue - the only revenue line growing at their companies - began to shrink? Now, with initial testing, we know that with conservative, and largely metered, approaches to charging readers, digital ad revenue doesn't shrink. Full story.
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