The Inland Press Association is a not-for-profit organization based in Des Plaines, Illinois with more than 1,000 daily and weekly newspaper members in all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada and Bermuda.
[citation needed] Inland is owned by its member newspapers and operated by a volunteer board with a small professional staff in Des Plaines.
Inland offers the only newspaper industry conferences designed specifically for family owners, for group executives, and for human resources professionals.
Inland also provides industry research that newspapers use to compare their performances to peers, to identify business opportunities, to monitor employee morale and efficiency and track cost and revenue trends across time.
The Employee Engagement Study monitors workplace morale, with the intention of identifying possible festering issues beyond the obvious ones such as wages and benefits.
[1] Inland's founding in 1885 was motivated largely by the effect newsprint trusts were having on small newspaper publishers, who believed they could achieve better terms in an alliance.