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  • Special Edition

    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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    Call on experts to help with persistent problems

    Addressing systemic local news issues, such as building trust or overcoming polarization, can be more effective and sustainable when part of your approach includes learning from outside experts, who can help surface new methodologies or approaches.

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    Get inspired by non-news expertise and research

    Looking for insights outside the media bubble — especially for topics other industries are grappling with, too — can offer new perspectives and approaches to try out in the newsroom.

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    Join our API Local News Summit on News Avoidance and Digital Wellness

    The American Press Institute is hosting a Local News Summit on October 6-7 in Boise, Idaho to identify and advance solutions that help local news leaders design experiences and products that encourage individual and community well-being. Apply for a remaining spot.

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    Local news doesn’t have to address community challenges alone

    Identify a topic, experiment or challenge that could benefit from collaborating with researchers.

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    Collaborate with non-news experts

    Three frameworks for how journalists can engage with non-news experts and researchers to help solve a problem, rethink a beat or collaborate on an experiment

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    2 frameworks to help you communicate your impact to every audience

    Most newsrooms have one impact story. They tell it the same way to everyone, and then they're surprised when it lands with some audiences and dies in the room with others. The story wasn't wrong. It just never got translated.

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    Job posting: Product support specialist

    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 through 2027.

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