Vice President, Government Affairs

• · Arrange and lead meetings with key Sacramento stakeholders for news industry leaders. • · Draft and submit timely position letters to the California Legislature on business, privacy and transparency legislation that affects the industry. • · Testify – or prepare board members to testify – in the California Legislature on policy issues or pending legislation that affects the news industry. • · Maintain a tracker following key pieces of legislation and regulatory developments. • · Work with CEO and Board members to formulate CNPA’s positions on major issues affecting the industry such as generative artificial intelligence and state efforts to fund journalism. • · Maintain relationships with key legislative and state staffers and advise on language of pending legislation and revisions to such legislation. • · Keep CNPA members informed with regular updates and an e-newsletter on pending legislation, important policy developments, and regulatory matters. • · Facilitate and organize Board committee meetings, including the government affairs discussions at these meetings. • · Oversee the activities of lobbying firms or public affairs consultants that the association may engage to ensure that we are reaching our legislative objectives. • · Organize and participate in coalitions of aligned groups or associations to highlight key matters of concern for the news industry, whether related to employment, business or privacy or to the Public Records Act, the Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act or other transparency laws or regulations. • · Represent CNPA in media and public events, as directed by CEO. • · Mobilize members to participate in state or local government hearings, legislative or other public meetings, letter-writing campaigns, and other advocacy activities.