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Tonda Rush

Tonda Rush is general counsel to the National Newspaper Association. Email her at tonda@nna.org

What is the status of the new salary threshold regarding exempt employees?

On July 1, the new salary threshold for exempt employees went into effect. Now, employees must make at least $844 per week to be considered exempt from overtime pay. In January, the threshold becomes $1,128 ...

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As 2023 drew to a close ...

Waiting for invoice payments to show up in your mailbox … and waiting … and waiting? There might be a reason for that, and it isn’t because your customers are suddenly slow–payers.

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New Illinois law mandates marketers disclosure affiliations

It requires, among other things, anyone sending a letter or postcard asking a consumer to contact the sender “by mail, telephone, email, website or other prescribed means” and offering products ...

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Looking back at events that have caused continuing postal increases for mailers

What does NNA expect to see from USPS in the next 12 months?

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Managers will want to take note of these issues

NNA members will want to read about the status of noncompete clauses in employment agreements and new reporting to FinCen. 

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It is clear that USPS will be altered forever by 2023-24

It is hard to predict right now what further hurdles the Postal Service might throw at newspaper mailers. But it is possible to toss out some good guesses.

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Pay very close attention to real estate in your advertising department

Q: Real estate ads are starting to pick up a little. What do we need to watch for?

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NNA Supports JCPA Introduction

NNA Press Release ⁠— April 1, 2023 Contact: tonda@nna.org   National Newspaper Association Supports Journalism Competition and Preservation Act Introduction   National Newspaper Association ...

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More sorting and delivery centers to shift local carriers from post offices to central sorting facility

NNA member alert ⁠— The U.S. Postal Service has notified its workforce of plans to continue consolidating the carrier workforce ... 

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Publishers must navigate the next steps toward mailing in a digital world

The old ways of dealing with USPS are coming to an end

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Questioning what to do about a social media dispute?

Q: I have spent thousands of dollars building my brand on a Facebook business page. I use it to drive traffic to my website and to sell my publication to customers. Suddenly, without warning, Facebook ...

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To run or not run; consider this ...

Q: A reader recently shared a video taken from her car video camera of a breaking news event. What should we be concerned about before we decide to use it?

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If you are working in states where the appellate courts have not yet ruled, be advised that your ability to record is not as clearly established

There have been disputes over the years about whether privacy rights protect the object of your lens if YOU are in public but your subject is not, such as instances where you use a telephoto lens to shoot ...

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It's a long river ...

It is a reasonable assumption that if you are reading this, you are counting on Periodicals mail. Maybe you are relying upon it for 80-100% of your distribution. If that is you, I am worried about ...

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What happens when a letter-writer wants to take back their letter?

Q: A reader sent a letter to the editor on a topic of great controversy in our community. Then, after thinking more about it, the reader told us not to publish. But we have the letter. We have the ...

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While we wait ... here are some great mileposts along NNA’s 137-year history

If experience over the last decade means anything, it will be more than a year before a new idea jells within the USPS management team and gets on the regulatory path to enactment. NNA has requested action ...

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Newspaper mailers not saved from dramatic postage increases by postal reform

The U.S. Postal Service today announced it would hike Periodicals postage rates an average of 8.5% for Periodicals on July 10, 2022, disappointing publishers who expected passage of the Postal Service ...

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Newspaper promotions at Within-County mailing rate can begin

President Joe Biden today signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which implements reforms of federal employee benefit programs and shaves more than $50 billion off the USPS balance sheet. It also ...

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Congress passes Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, but ‘our work is not done’

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The National Newspaper Association capped a decade-and-a-half legislative campaign in March when Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.

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