Abstract
The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (NPA) was ostensibly designed to protect editorial and reportorial diversity. From 1991 to 2006, however, twelve of twenty-two Joint-Operating Agreements have disappeared, including two in 2005. Another expires in 2007. Along with publishers' desires to monopolize markets for their own fiscal gain, the NPA can be blamed as failed policy that does not include penalties for violating the act's provisions or stipulations for how JOAs should be dissolved. This article considers why newspaper diversity is a valuable commodity worth preserving, traces the history and application of the NPA, and examines recent developments in related court cases and the newspaper business market. The article concludes that the federal government should consider amending or revising the NPA as a means of salvaging editorial diversity in JOA markets.
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