2020/2021 NNA OFFICERS April 13, 2021 Chair The Honorable Xavier Becerra Brett Wesner Wesner Publications Secretary of Health and Human Services Cordell, OK Hubert H Humphrey Building 200 Independence Ave SW Vice Chair John Galer Washington DC 20201 The Hillsboro Journal-New Hillsboro, IL Dear Secretary Becerra: Treasurer Jeff Mayo We write as publishers, editors and journalists at the nation’s community newspapers to urge your Cookson Hills Publishing attention to our important role in addressing small, rural, ethnic and minority communities in the new “We Sallisaw, OK Can Do This Campaign.” BOARD OF DIRECTORS Our newspapers are reaching the audiences you are looking for. We publish weekly and daily in print and Martha Diaz-Aszkenazy hourly on digital platforms to people seeking local news. Our readers are old, young, Republicans, San Fernando Valley Sun San Fernando, CA Democrats and Independents, who are highly motivated to vote, engage in civic leadership and develop their small communities. These are the audiences who can help to get shots into arms. Beth Bennett Wisconsin Newspaper Association Madison, WI To date, despite guidance from Congress in the Department’s 2021 appropriations legislation to make better use of local media, our newspapers have not been contacted for the $10 billion advertising J. Louis Mullen Blackbird LLC campaign. Newport, WA The HHS advertising should appear in April and May on our print pages, on our website and on our William Jacobs Jacobs Properties Facebook posts. Your message in our publications will be highly-focussed in a medium that is best Brookhaven, MS designed to handle powerful, complex and urgent messages. Bradley Thompson Detroit Legal News Publishing, Inc. Our industry has the ability to quickly assist your media buyers in distributing placement orders in Detroit, MI thousands of community newspapers in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Please do not let the social EX-OFFICIO media platforms that have been the source of so much misinformation about the coronavirus be the primary medium for talking to America. NNA Immediate Past-President Matt Adelman Please ask your team to contact National Newspaper Association’s executive director, Lynne Lance, at the Douglas Budget Douglas, WY earliest opportunity so we can discuss the ways our newspapers can help. She is available at [email protected]. Thank you for your kind attention. Matthew Paxton The News-Gazette Corporation We can do this! 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