(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a 25 November 1998 WAN press release on the occasion of its Board meeting in Beirut, Lebanon: Paris and London, 25 November 1998 For immediate release World Association of Newspapers / The Newspaper Publishers Association Ltd. NPA Joins World Organisation The Newspaper Publishers Association in London has joined the World […]
(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a 25 November 1998 WAN press release on the
occasion of its Board meeting in Beirut, Lebanon:
Paris and London, 25 November 1998
For immediate release
World Association of Newspapers / The Newspaper Publishers Association Ltd.
NPA Joins World Organisation
The Newspaper Publishers Association in London has joined the World
Association of Newspapers, the Paris-based global industry organisation
which groups 58 publishers’ associations and 15,000 publications world-wide.
The NPA was admitted to WAN at a meeting of the organisation’s Board in
Beirut, Lebanon, today.
Timothy Balding, the Director General of WAN, said: “The whole WAN
membership is delighted to welcome the British national press into the
global family of newspapers. British newspapers have a world-wide
reputation, rightfully, for excellence and their absence from the
representative world industry organisation has been a handicap for us”. Mr
Balding continued: “The professional expertise, clout and influence of the
NPA titles is very important to WAN as it continues its mission to help the
development of newspapers and to defend press freedom and the professional
and business interests of the industry.”
Steve Oram, Director of the NPA, said: “The NPA believes that the World
Association of Newspapers plays an important and worthwhile role on press
freedom and looks forward to contributing to that work.”
The NPA groups the following companies: Associated Newspapers Limited,
Express Newspapers Ltd, News International plc, Telegraph Group Limited,
Mirror Group plc, The Financial Times Limited, Guardian Media Group plc and
Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
WAN defends and promotes press freedom world-wide. Its membership includes
58 national newspaper publishers associations, individual newspaper
executives in 90 countries, seven regional press organisations and 17 news
agencies. It represents 15,000 newspapers.
