Newspaper Society

The News Media Association was created in 2014 by a merger between the Newspaper Society and the Newspaper Publishers' Association.

The Newspaper Society, which represented local papers in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1836 and the Newspaper Publishers' Association, which represented national publishers, in 1904. The two organisations had been sharing offices since 2006. Both organisations were represented on the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee. The merged organisation has a place on the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee.

Eric Wallers Cheadle, President of the Newspaper Society, was awarded a CBE in the 1973 Birthday Honours, John Wallwork, also President, in the 1982 Birthday Honours and Dugal Nisbet-Smith, the director, in the 1996 New Year Honours.

The new organisation intends to represent digital as well as paper based media. It supports the Independent Publishers' Forum.