Welcome API’s summer fellow Gonzalo del Peon: Expanding reader revenue beyond subscriptions and helping newsrooms study what audiences need
The last twelve months have been the year of the digital subscription. In response to continuing ad revenue losses and social media platform upheaval, more newsrooms have turned toward reader [...]
Better News debuts as new resource to help news innovators learn, plan and do
Site also unveils Table Stakes Manual to help newsrooms accelerate digital transformation WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Press Institute, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Lenfest [...]
API releases dataset for large-sample survey of people in media
Two years ago the American Press Institute released a large-scale study of communication graduates, “Facing Change: The needs, attitudes and experiences of people in media.” The collaboration involved 22 different [...]
WAN-IFRA releases first findings from API-supported inquiry on news literacy
This week is the annual “News in Education Week,” a time when NIE programs at newspaper media across the U.S. typically draw additional attention to the work they seek to [...]
Fact-checking and accountability reporting in 2017: What the American Press Institute is doing, and an invitation to join us
The 2016 presidential election has been marked by several head-spinning “firsts” — people and practices not seen in the history of U.S. politics. One of those is the surge of [...]
API continues conversations on the ethics of nonprofit funding in news
Research from API shows that the ethics of taking grants from foundations and gifts from donors to produce news are not fully charted and not without controversy. Nonprofit funding of [...]
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