North American Street Newspaper Association
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The North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA) was an organization of street newspapers that provided employment opportunities, community and a voice to homeless and other economically vulnerable people who existed between 2007 and 2013. {{As of|October 2008}} it had 28 members in the United States and Canada with a total monthly circulation of about 255,000 copies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasna.org/about.html |title=About NASNA |date=2008 |publisher=NASNA |accessdate=12 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510143003/http://www.nasna.org/about.html |archivedate=10 May 2008 }} NASNA held an annual conference and run the Street News Service (SNS) together with AlterNet to share articles.{{Cite book|last=Heinz|first=Teresa L.|last2=Levinson|first2=David|title=Encyclopedia of Homelessness|publisher=SAGE|date=2004|edition=illustrated|pages=539|isbn=0-7619-2751-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&pg=RA1-PA539|accessdate=12 February 2009}}
History
The seed to start NASNA was planted in August 1996 at the first North American Street Newspaper Summit in Chicago, sponsored by papers StreetWise and Real Change as well as the National Coalition for the Homeless. It was formally founded in September 1997 when 37 street newspapers met at the second conference in Seattle.{{Cite book|last=Danky|first=James Philip|author2=Wiegand, Wayne A. |authorlink2=Wayne A. Wiegand |title=Print Culture in a Diverse America|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=1998|edition=illustrated|pages=48|isbn=0-252-06699-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vqtgo0Zi0jEC&pg=PA48|accessdate=12 February 2009}}{{Cite book|last=Howley|first=Kevin|title=Community Media|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2005|edition=illustrated|pages=68|isbn=0-521-79228-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MslR_FE5SI4C&pg=PA68|accessdate=12 February 2009}} In 2006 NASNA had 47 member newspapers.{{Cite book|last=Feldman|first=Leonard C.|title=Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion|publisher=Cornell University Press|date=2006|edition=annotated|pages=166|isbn=0-8014-7290-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1duRL-Z4VsoC&pg=RA1-PA166|accessdate=12 February 2009}} In early 2009, the North American Street Newspaper Association hired an executive director for the first time.{{Cite web| title=North American Street Newspaper Association hires first Executive Director | accessdate=12 February 2009 | date=7 January 2009 | url=http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/north-american-street-newspaper-association-hires-first-executive-director/ | work=Street Roots blog}} In December 2013 the association was dissolved as a volunteer structure was viewed as preferable to the existing corporate structure.{{Cite web|url = http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3254458fb01d399e2dbe9ae2c&id=d6ee91163c|title = Time for a Change|date = |accessdate = 8 September 2014|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}
See also
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External links
- [https://northamericanstreetnewspaperassociation.wordpress.com/ North American Street Newspaper Association]
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