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  • Special Edition

    Rethink your impact signals

    Identifying deeper impact signals your newsroom wants to track and engaging colleagues from across your organization on what impact they want their work to have.

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    Measuring civic value

    How do we bridge that gap between the standard KPIs and those mushier signals of your work’s impact — how can you identify and quantify what’s changing in the lives and perceptions of the communities you serve?

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    From the grassroots to the grasstops: Growing a robust public network for better public media

    Ambassador64 is helping Rocky Mountain Public Media build two-way communication channels and grassroots advisory networks so more Coloradans can feel truly seen and heard, and our statewide civic fabric grows stronger.

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    How CalMatters is increasing the impact we have on the world — and how you can too

    To help us think about impact in a more structured way, one technique we’ve developed is the impact strategy meeting. The goal is simple: Create focused time for us to strategize on how a project can have the most impact possible.

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    We built civic action boxes for readers. They became our impact data.

    The sidebar Planet Detroit built so readers could participate gave us something we'd never had: a civic engagement rate we can compute story by story.

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    What gardening can teach your newsroom about developing a culture of impact

    By asking fundamental questions, NC Local figured out how to manage the influx of data that was crowding out other signals of impact

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    4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count

    We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are defining, measuring and acting on signals of impact.

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    4 practical perspectives

    Look for transferable ideas and skills that can help you think about your local news ecosystem — and use this as a blueprint for engaging with experts in your community.

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    Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact

    With careful planning, events and newsroom-created gathering spaces can help local media measure impact and trust.

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    Build something together

    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 [...]

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