About NENPA

New England Newspaper and Press Association is a new organization with a long history.  The result of a merger between the two leading trade associations for newspapers in New England, NENPA will continue to provide services and programs to help our members publish better and more profitable newspapers.

The New England Newspaper Association (NENA) was founded in 1981, the result of a merger between the New England Daily Newspaper Association and the New England Newspapers Advertising Bureau. The New England Press Association (NEPA), headquartered on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., was founded in 1950.

In its earlier years, NEPA was primarily a weekly newspaper organization with programming aimed largely at the staff level; while NENA was primarily an organization for daily newspapers with programming aimed largely at management. In the past two decades, however, both organizations had expanded services and programming into overlapping areas.

Today, NENPA represents the best of both organizations, with over 75 daily and 432 weekly member newspapers, as well as 45 members who publish bi-weekly or monthly.

The goals of NENPA:

— To maintain our strength as our industry weathers one of the worst economic storms in history.
— To continue our tradition of providing excellent training at a reasonable cost.
— To become an even stronger force as we look out for the interests of newspapers and protect them from harmful legislation and unfair regulation and market forces.
— To expand our brain trust. The merger will allow us access to the expertise of a whole new group of New England newspaper publishers, editors and advertising and circulation experts.
— To fortify our financial position going forward. Both NEPA and NENA bring healthy assets to the table at this time, but our industry is contracting and member newspapers are seeking relief and cutting expenses.