Governmental Affairs Conference March 21-24
The National Newspaper Association’s Governmental Affairs Conference will convene in Washington, D.C. March 21 and focus on a number of issues important to community papers across the county. A delegation from Mississippi and your state’s press association will attend, including MPA president Marcus Bowers, publisher of the Rankin County News, and past presidents Bill Jacobs of the Brookhaven Daily Leader and Joe Lee of the Grenada Daily Star.
Jacobs was recently appointed to the NNA Board of Directors and is the first Mississippi newspaperman to hold such a post since the late Dan Phillips of the Oxford Eagle served in the late 1990s.
The agenda will focus on such topics as Freedom of Information, small business health plans, postal issues and the estate tax. For more information, visit nna.org.