Newspaper Proprietors Association

{{See also|Newspaper Publishers' Association}}

{{short description|British trade association}}

The Newspaper Proprietors Association was a London-based trade association.

It opposed proposed legislation in 1908 to restrict the publication of unauthorised military information.{{cite book|last1=Wilkinson|title=Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1134052547|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIB8AgAAQBAJ&q=Newspaper+Proprietors%27+Association&pg=PA31|accessdate=18 April 2017}} In 1912 it was a member of the Admiralty, War Office and Press Committee, the fore-runner of the D-Notice system. Letters, or telegrams, sent to editors asking them not to carry certain stories in the interest of national security were known as "Parkers" after Ernest Parke who was then the representative of the Association on the Committee.{{cite web|title=History of the DSMA-Notice System|url=http://www.dsma.uk/history/index.htm|website=Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice System|accessdate=18 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227013523/http://www.dsma.uk/history/index.htm|archive-date=27 February 2017|url-status=dead}}

It opposed proposals by the BBC to produce a magazine in 1928.{{cite book|last1=Briggs|first1=Asa|title=The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless|date=1995|publisher=Oxford|isbn=0192129309|page=267}}

Some of its records are held in the British National Archives.{{cite web|title=Newspaper Proprietors Association|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F90562|website=National Archives|accessdate=18 April 2017}}