Each year, the first week of October highlights a special tribute in the news world – National Newspaper Week! Recognition for National Newspaper Week kicks off on the first Sunday in October and continues throughout the entire week as a tribute to the service of newspapers and newspaper employees across North America. In every publication, newspapers record current and upcoming information for public knowledge, allowing readers to stay up to date with the latest news and happenings.
Since 1940, Newspaper Association Managers has sponsored and supported National Newspaper Week, a week-long promotion of the newspaper industry in the United States. It began as an annual observance in 1940, building on California’s Newspaper Appreciation Week. An early proclamation declared “This love of freedom was brought to America by its settlers and instilled in the voice of its first newspaper, the Boston News Letter, published by John Campbell in 1704. The Freedom of the press in America did not go unchallenged and was not established permanently in the expression of popular rights until…1733.” The Coolidge Examiner, Coolidge Arizona, October 3, 1941.
National Newspaper Week Tribute Challenge
With help of your weekly read, create a short story using cut-out words and pictures from The Blade’s October 5 edition. Once you have pieced your feature together, submit your entry to our office by 5 p.m. Saturday, October 8. The article that best catches the attention of Forest-Blade staff will be showcased in next week’s copy of The Forest-Blade!
