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    Week Three Challenges

    Maybe you’re proactively planning your day around the suggested well-being task, or maybe you need to check your calendar each day for a reminder — there’s no right or wrong way to do this.

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    Week Two Challenges

    You’ve made it through the first week of prioritizing well-being! What activities made a positive impact on your day? Were there any that were difficult to accomplish?

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    The American Press Institute Board of Trustees adds five media leaders, appoints Barbara Wall of Gannett as new chair

    Barbara Wall, a board member of Gannett Co. and The Freedom Forum, will serve as the next Chair of the American Press Institute’s Board of [...]

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    5 ways to support source tracking in your newsroom

    The cohort shares its learnings with newsrooms working to identify gaps and opportunities to broaden sourcing and find ways to better reflect the deep diversity of communities in their coverage.

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    Balancing Well-being

    Why a 20-day, 20-action challenge? Because prioritizing the well-being of ourselves, our journalists, and by relation, our organizations takes deliberate steps toward healthy habits and self-awareness.

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    Week One Challenges

    Five actions to take this week to build resilient mental health habits.

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  • API Update

    American Press Institute awards $50,000 in Beyond Print Convening grants to support digital transformation

    The American Press Institute awarded two $25,000 grants to The Keene Sentinel and the National Trust for Local News to support experimentation and progress around the print transition with the goal of keeping customers and revenues. 

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    How community engagement can inform source tracking

    You will never know how your community is engaging with your coverage unless you ask. Our partners at the Record-Journal in Meriden, Conn., experienced this firsthand after holding more than 80 conversations with community members and hearing from more than 2,000 survey respondents. 

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  • API Update

    17 news organizations receive support from the American Press Institute Civic Discourse and Community Voices Fund

    The projects will start immediately and run for four months, during which the news organizations will convene events, try new coverage approaches or embark on other projects aimed at encouraging local residents to engage in valuable conversations about the most pressing issues they face. 

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  • Special Edition

    How to get staff buy-in for tracking sources

    It is okay if this takes longer to get off the ground than you think it will. 

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