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    How to audit sources: A guide to help you get started

    This guide will help you track sources in your journalism. API assembled a cohort of newsrooms in 2023 to track the diversity of people quoted [...]

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    Civic Discourse and Community Voices Fund 2023

    This grant opportunity is designed to empower local and community-based news organizations with funds and peer learning to begin or enhance civic discourse initiatives, paying [...]

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    Local News and AI

    Resources and advice on how AI can serve your news organization. We’re here to help cut through the noise and share what you need to know about AI as a local journalist. 

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    API launches Civic Discourse and Community Voices Fund to enable local news experiments

    Both nonprofit and for-profit news organizations may apply by August 21 by 8 p.m. ET for grants of up to $10,000 to be used over four months starting in September.

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    Want to protect democracy? Support the mental health of journalists

    If you want a truly accurate and helpful public square, one capable of helping a pluralistic democratic republic survive, you have to think about the well-being of the people who make up the press.

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    How news leaders can foster psychological safety

    This week’s mental health reset asks you to interrogate how your contributions create a psychologically safe workplace.

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    Journalists and mental health: An API resource guide

    This guide is an effort to point to and organize resources in ways that can be helpful to journalists looking to put words to what they’re feeling and manage those stresses, as well as resources for managers and first-person accounts from peers.

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    Four questions to prompt creativity

    Creativity is good for the group, and today, I want to encourage even tired, uninspired news leaders to cut through the monotony of the status quo and infuse a level of creativity into their daily flow.  

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    Building healthy news teams to reduce stress

    Connection has the power to counterbalance adversity. And this adversity, difficulty or distress can be self-inflicted as often as it can be unavoidable by outside factors.

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    American Press Institute’s product development program awards $30,000 in grants to six news organizations

    Over the past several months, these organizations learned the fundamentals of product development and used that knowledge to build products that would help their communities.

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