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This week's action: Think big about how a partnership with an outside organization can serve your community. In addition to collaborating with non-news experts to help inspire new ideas or problem-solve, journalists and researchers can collaborate on or p

This week's action: Identify an expert to help you address a challenge your newsroom frequently encounters. Addressing systemic local news issues, such as building trust or overcoming polarization, can be more effective and sustainable when part of your a

This week's action: Find a non-news resource you can regularly engage with to spark new ideas. For most overarching news organization challenges, there are probably frameworks, trainings, think pieces and other resources to help news leaders identify solu

Applications are now closed. The American Press Institute is hosting a Local News Summit on Oct. 6-7 in Boise, Idaho, to identify and advance solutions that help local news leaders design experiences and products that encourage individual and community we

This week's action: Identify a topic, experiment or challenge that could benefit from collaborating with researchers. Try this Start here: Identify a topic or challenge that you could use an outside perspective on. This could be an area of coverage that's

Welcome to our August Need to Know Special Edition series on partnering with non-news experts. The challenges local news faces - news deserts, burnout, community trust and connection - don't exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by and interlock with tre

At the American Press Institute's recent Local News Summit on Measuring Impact for Civic Discourse, I asked a room full of news leaders to stand up. Then I started naming audiences. Funders. Newsroom staff. Board members. Community members. Subscribers. L

The American Press Institute seeks a part-time, client-facing independent contractor to provide customer support to our newsroom partners using API's products, Metrics for News and Source Matters, for the remainder of 2026, with an option to extend throug

We wake up to notifications before our eyes focus and feet hit the floor. We move between work pings, group chats, weather alerts, school emails and endless scrolls. We're parents; some of us are caregiving for young children, others for aging parents, or

To be successful and create value as a news industry, we have to meet our audiences where they are and build relationships over time. Every news organization, from legacy to startup, is trying to figure out what combination of things helps foster the long