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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.

As we look ahead to the next five to 10 years, the American Press Institute team brainstormed future non-negotiables that we believe local news organizations must consider to ensure their longevity and resilience.

Change is hard. Leading others through major organizational changes that you are also experiencing is even harder. There’s a framework that Table Stakes organizations come back to again and again to help them navigate those tough waters.

Collaboration allows you to bring in more perspectives and ideas, making you better equipped to solve problems and take on bigger, more complex projects. Though the benefits are apparent, many teams and organizations need help with effective collaboration.

“Engaged journalism is an inclusive practice that prioritizes the information needs and wants of the community members it serves, creates collaborative space for the audience in all aspects of the journalistic process, and is dedicated to building and preserving trusting relationships between journalists and the public.”