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API is hiring a new Director of Community Engagement
The American Press Institute is hiring a new Director of Community Engagement to serve as the institute’s subject matter expert on how local journalism can meet community needs through sustained connection and convening.
Join us to explore how local identity and history can strengthen community engagement and sustainability
The next API Local News Summit will be on how local and community-based media might engender a local identity and embrace their geography and history. We’ll help news leaders consider how they contribute to a community’s well-being by fostering a sense of place — and how, when done with care, this might offer new ways to sustain local news.
American Press Institute awards $40,000 in grants to help evolve revenue experiments for local news organizations
Through its 2025 Revenue Experiments Learning Cohort, API will support the eight local and community news organizations — all alumni of the U.S.-based Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program — with peer-learning calls to help them clarify their experiments, share ideas, and define effective tactics and strategies.


