European Newspaper Publishers Association
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| Industry | Newspapers |
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| Founded | 1961 |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
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Key people
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Carlo Perrone, President Valdo Lehari jr., Vice-President Sophie Scrive, Executive Director |
| Website | http://www.enpa.eu |
The European Newspaper Publishers' Association (ENPA) is an international non-profit group advocating the interests of the European newspaper publishing industry at different European and international organisations and institutions. ENPA's members together represent over 5,200 national, regional and local newspaper titles that in 2008 were bought by around 140 million people and read by 280 million people per day. Publishing industries as a whole constitute an important economic sector in the EU, then employing more than 750,000 people in 64,000 companies.
The group exists to:
ENPA is a member of the World Association of Newspapers, a non-profit, non-governmental organization made up of 76 national newspaper associations, 12 news agencies, 10 regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries.
ENPA is a registered observer at the Council of Europe where its delegates participate in the work of the Media and Information Society Division.
It was founded in 1961 as the Communauté des Association d’Editeurs de Journaux du Marché Commun (the Confederation of Newspaper Publishers of the Common Market - CAEJ). it changed its name in the mid 1990s to ENPA – the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association. At the end of 2015, the association split into two entities. Half of the associations (national associations of Belgium (Dutch-speaking), Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom) created a new organisation under a new management/leadership structure which launched in January 2016: News Media Europe. The remaining members included the national associations of Austria, Belgium (French-speaking), Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Switzerland.
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