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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.

Building buy-in starts with creating a space where people can share their concerns. Consider listening sessions and/or a survey to collect questions and concerns asynchronously by following these three steps.

Newsroom experiments unearthed many ideas and epiphanies, including a roadmap for an influencer collaboration. We’ll walk you through each step, offering action items, resources and tips from newsrooms who have already worked through this process.

We worked with a small team of lawyers to draft a contract for these new working relationships. The template includes highlighted sections that we suggest you edit to meet your needs and reflect your collaborations with trusted messengers.

From building on nostalgia and a shared sense of place to repackaging evergreen content into reliably updated guides or even collaborating with community institutions to create something new, products relevant to your community can offer new ways for audiences to engage with local news and funders to support your work.

When three-way partnerships between journalists, researchers and facilitators are done well, all parties are excited by both the process and the results.

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.

After four months of learning and experiments, our American Press Institute and Knight Election Hub cohort on influencer collaborations has concluded. Here's what we learned.

Questions, flags and a checklist to help you anticipate and prepare for any potentially sticky ethical situations that arise in partnering with trusted messengers, including language for how to get on the record about the ethics guiding your collaboration.

The Table Stakes Local News Transformation Programs ran from 2015 to 2024. More than 200 local news organizations from across the United States benefited from these programs.