A Trusted Voice: Preserving the Future of the Black Press

Benjamin Chavis is the CEO and president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). The trade organization represents more than 200 Black newspapers across the country. (Courtesy photo)
 
This post was originally published on Afro.
This post was also published on Word In Black.
By Megan Sayles
Fears over the future of the newspaper industry are not new. With the transition to the internet in the 1990s, the rise of social media in the 2000s and the emergence of a