News Blog

This report builds on the wisdom and experience of those interviewed and surveyed, and those who shape and influence the work behind the scenes.

The press will be much more effective in serving people and strengthening democracy if it learns from what researchers are learning. Among the examples and takeaways, you will find that news leaders and non-news experts alike value the opportunity to think differently about the challenges in front of them, about how local news can change and how research can ask different questions.

Why might news leaders and researchers want to inform each other’s work? And what might we learn from the ways it’s occurred so far?

When we set out to catalog the kinds of collaborative spaces between journalists and researchers, we started with an eye toward depolarization. Given our goals and what might be on the minds of many stakeholders following the U.S. elections, we wanted to highlight where it has happened.

Non-news experts share their insights to help news leaders on their challenge; the experts also gain ideas for further research and potential collaboration. We’ve been evaluating how we make this work at our summits, where the interaction between news leaders and non-news experts is a top-rated attribute.

API's tools Metrics for News and Source Matters had another banner year, while API staff shared their expertise at events across the country.

Here's what we covered this year.

Here are some resources we offered to help foster healthy, responsive and resilient news organizations in 2024.

Editor’s note: There will be no Friday newsletter this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Bluesky’s growth may see X’s influence shrink  Bluesky continues to [...]

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