Benefits of being a Newspaper Society Member
NS Membership
Services &
Subscriptions
- Membership of one of the world's most effective media trade
associations.
- Full participation in an organisation bringing a positive,
collective identity to the regional and local newspaper
industry.
- Full involvement in the Society's highly successful lobbying,
representational and public affairs work in Westminster, Whitehall
and Brussels, and in the industry's self-regulatory systems - the
Advertising Standards Authority and Press Complaints
Commission.
- Full participation in an organisation which helps to improve
the usage and understanding of the regional press as a medium by
advertisers and agencies.
- World and European newspaper industry participation through the
Society's membership of the World Association of Newspapers,
Commonwealth Press Union, European Newspaper Publishers'
Association, and a wider, national perspective through the Society
membership of the Advertising Association and CBI and Society
involvement in JICREG, the Society of Editors, Newspaper
Conference, WONA and YNA.
- The right to subscribe to the Society's individual professional
advice services.
- Editorial and press facility services provided by the Newspaper
Society to individual regional and local newspaper titles,
including press identity cards and Royal Rota.
- Access to newsprint industry forecasts and trends
- Participation in the Society's growing network of strategic
alliances with other media associations, including UK Publishing
Media (an £18bn alliance of newspaper, book and magazine
publishers).
- Inclusion on the NS industry database for
regional and local newspapers.
- Preferential rates to attend our conference programmes.
- The supply from Featurelink of hundreds of
revenue-generating ideas, starter ads, competitions, feature
opportunities and a calendar of events.
Full list of
benefits (pdf)