Bureau of National Affairs

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BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.) is an independent, privately owned publisher of specialized news and information for professionals in business and government. The company reports on legislation, regulations, court decisions, and policy. Its scope includes nearly every aspect of the government's workings that affect business.

BNA information products report on federal and state government actions and those of nongovernmental organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that are based elsewhere but affect U.S. business. BNA customers are lawyers, accountants and CPAs, compliance officials in a wide range of industries, human resource practitioners, labor unions, and many other professionals in the United States and abroad.

The company was founded in 1929 by noted newsman David Lawrence as a subsidiary of the United States Daily, now known as the U.S. News & World Report. In 1946 Lawrence began focusing solely on creating the U.S. News & World Report and sold BNA to five of his top editors: Dean Dinwoody, John Stewart, Ed Donnell, Adolph Magidson, and John Taylor. They in turn offered partial ownership to the rest of their colleagues. To this day, ownership in BNA remains exclusively limited to current and former BNA employees, making BNA the oldest wholly employee-owned company in the United States.^{[citation needed]} It is the only major legal publisher in 2008 that remains owned by Americans. After more than 75 years of operations in the West End of Washington, D.C., BNA moved its operations five miles to Arlington, Virginia, in September 2007.

In 2007 BNA offered more than 300 print and electronic information products to the legal and business markets. Completely free of advertising, those products are created by more than 500 Capitol Hill reporters and legal editors and a worldwide network of correspondents. BNA has seven subsidiary companies and a national sales network.