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As you’re having those conversations, be sure that you are testing your assumptions about why things are done and who they’re important to.

TOP NEWS THIS WEEK This week, a slew of news organizations moved ahead with using AI in their work. Semafor will use AI to help [...]

Six news organizations will participate in the American Press Institute’s live events sprint program, a five-month cohort aimed at helping news organizations design and market [...]

As news teams begin thinking about their election coverage plans, it may feel like adding more tasks to an already full plate, with a fraction of the staff and resources they once had. But that doesn’t have to mean figuring out how to do more with less — maybe it’s doing less with less.

We thought the list would be dominated by the things we do to fill print holes. Instead, we found there were a whole lot of digital tasks and initiatives we were doing that didn’t really accomplish our strategy or that took more time, effort and resources than we had available.

TOP NEWS THIS WEEK This week, The Messenger closed after less than one year in operation. It’s the latest in a string of media catastrophes [...]

OFF THE TOP You might have heard: After LA Times layoffs, questions about diversity and seniority swirl (Nieman Lab)  But did you know: Los Angeles [...]

If we want to advance care in our community storytelling work – which I see as a key role of journalism – we also need to practice self-care. 

Anyone can work toward creating emotional safety anywhere they have agency over the room or in the space. This is a quick look at ways to operationalize emotional safety, whether in-person, virtual, one-time or ongoing.

Care involves the ability to hear, understand and recognize others’ needs and feelings. Centering care, though, goes one step further by taking on the work [...]