[1] In 2022, MPA was merged into the main trade association for American daily newspapers, the News Media Alliance (previously the Newspaper Association of America).
MPA was the industry trade association for multi-platform magazine media companies.
Staffed by magazine media specialists, MPA was headquartered in New York, New York, with a government affairs office in Washington, D.C..[3] MPA held an annual conference, known as AMMC or the American Magazine Media Conference, for magazine media professionals.
[5] The July 2022 merger with the News Media Alliance created "a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,000 news and magazine media organizations and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and globally.
"[6] MPA administered the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB), which released consumer magazine advertising data on a monthly basis.