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PNRC names Lockwood national public notice journalism award winner
Apr 2, 2015
Jim Lockwood, staff writer for The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA, is the winner of the 2015 Public Notice Journalism award. Lockwood is recognized for his deft incorporation of public notice information ...
Book explains how public notices protect the integrity of storage unit auctions
Nov 3, 2014
Consumer and public safeguards in 46 states require operators of self-storage facilities to notify the public in a local newspaper before offering a renter’s goods for an auction after a default. ...
Survey: 81% read public notices in their local paper
Jun 16, 2014
Two-thirds (67%) of residents in small cities and towns in the U.S. read a local newspaper ranging from 1 day to 7 days a week, according to the 2013 Community Newspaper Readership Study conducted by The ...
PNRC names first national public notice journalism award winner
Apr 11, 2014
The Mitchell (SD) Daily Republic has been named the first recipient of the PNRC’s national Public Notice Journalism Award for 2014. The newspaper is recognized for a series inaugurated by an alert ...
Free Flow of Information Act gains toehold
Oct 1, 2013
WASHINGTON—The Free Flow of Information Act moved successfully through the Senate Committee on the Judiciary with a 13-5 vote in September.
New federal regulations may freeze foreclosures for 4 months
Sep 10, 2013
Newspapers that have already faced much disruption in their public notice business for foreclosures may be about to face another shock. The mortgage foreclosure process will freeze for many types of loans ...
Newspapers, NC state Senate battle over public notice
May 3, 2013
As if a state Senate committee hearing in Raleigh, NC, was not already tense, it grew downright contentious after legislators narrowly voted to approve a bill that would allow local governments in a dozen ...
Public notice on the list of state legislatures
Feb 1, 2013
State legislatures all around America are coming into session this winter and many will face pressure from local governments to permit them to eliminate public notice in newspapers and instead post information ...
TX paper is dedicated to public notice
Jun 5, 2012
Tiffany Waddell, co-owner and publisher of The Western Observer, a small community newspaper covering Jones County, TX, has developed eye-catching public notice ads to help alert the community about local ...
