The Midland News Association (MNA Media) is an England-based newspaper publishing company. Established in 1874, the Midland News Association is still one of Britain's largest independent media agencies. It publishes one of the UK's biggest-selling regional daily newspapers, the Express & Star, and its sister title, the Shropshire Star, as well as eight weekly titles and the monthly The Farmer newspaper and Shropshire Magazine.

The MNA has one of the fastest-growing web networks in the regional press, with 3.28 million average monthly unique users to expressandstar.com and shropshirestar.com – growing significantly yearly. iPad and iPhone apps for Express & Star and Shropshire Star were launched in January 2012.

Midland News Association is part of the Claverley Group, and the company's head office is in Queen Street, Wolverhampton.

Online editions of the weekly newspapers are delivered free to subscribers of the online page-turning edition of the Shropshire Star or Express & Star. The company's weekly papers are delivered across the West Midlands.

The history of the MNA can be traced back almost 150 years to a partnership between two men, including an ancestor of the Graham family who still owns the newspapers today.

Scottish-American millionaire Andrew Carnegie founded the Express & Star in Wolverhampton in the 1880s along with a group of radical Liberal Party members, including Thomas Graham.

Carnegie aimed to campaign, through a string of regional daily newspapers, for the creation of a British Republic. His dream was to sack the monarchy, scrap the House of Lords, and destroy every vestige of privilege in the land.

By 1902, Carnegie had abandoned his mission, and the newspaper has been owned by the Graham family ever since.