Newspaper Proprietors 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.[1] 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.[2]
It opposed proposals by the BBC to produce a magazine in 1928.[3]
Some of its records are held in the British National Archives.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilkinson (2009). Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System. Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 978-1134052547. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ "History of the DSMA-Notice System". Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice System. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless. Oxford. p. 267. ISBN 0192129309.
- ^ "Newspaper Proprietors Association". National Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2017.