News Media Association

The News Media Association is the voice of national, regional and local news media organisations in the UK and was created in 2014 by a merger between the Newspaper Society and the Newspaper Publishers' Association. The NMA exists to promote the interests of news media publishers to Government, regulatory authorities, industry bodies and other organisations whose work affects the industry.

The Newspaper Society, which represented local papers in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1836 and the Newspaper Publishers' Association, which represented national publishers, in 1904.[1] The two organisations had been sharing offices since 2006. Both organisations were represented on the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee. The merged organisation has a place on the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee.

Eric Wallers Cheadle, President of the Newspaper Society, was awarded a CBE in the 1973 Birthday Honours, John Wallwork, also President, in the 1982 Birthday Honours[2] and Dugal Nisbet-Smith, the director, in the 1996 New Year Honours.

The new organisation intends to represent digital as well as paper based media. It supports the Independent Publishers' Forum. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "178 years on, Newspaper Society drops the word 'newspaper' from its title in merger with NPA". Press Gazette. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Supplement" (PDF). London Gazette. 12 June 1982. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "New trade body for publishers of national, regional and local newspapers". Guardian. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
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