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 [...]
API to partner with Newsela, Rock the Vote for digital student election
Newsela today launched Students Vote 2016 in partnership with Rock the Vote. API will provide resources for educators in connection with the initiative. At American Press Institute we have [...]
Digital transformation of major newsrooms focus of new Temple University project supported by $1.3 million from Knight Foundation
The Dallas Morning News, the Philadelphia Media Network and the Miami Herald to participate in the Knight-Temple Table Stakes Project Philadelphia — Oct. 19, 2015 — Temple University’s School of Media [...]
API’s fact-checking project awarded grants from Hewlett, Rita Allen foundations
The American Press Institute has received grants totaling $200,000 for additional support of API’s political fact-checking and accountability journalism program. The program began in early 2014 with a grant of [...]
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