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    Today’s news leadership requires empathy

    This week’s Mental Health Reset challenge will require you to acknowledge your strengths as a journalist and ask you to turn those strengths in on yourself and your teams.  

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    Mental Health Reset

    It has been a very fast year. Instead of grinding at half-strength, take these next five Mondays of July to work through some leadership challenges that will directly and positively impact your mental health, and by proxy, the health and well-being of your team.

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    Get buy-in for engagement work

    Want to shift your newsroom’s culture around engagement and building trust? Need buy-in for your ideas? Here are five tips for getting started. 

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    Media can engage Millennials and Gen Z in community discussion. Here is where to start.

    If you care about civic discourse, young Americans and the health of local news organizations, here are some helpful insights we found from the survey.

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    Who are the journalists?

    Instead of having them assume, tell your community who you are, what has shaped you and what experience you have. Doing this makes you human and relatable. It also can make you credible, respected and trusted.

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    Use comments to explain (and defend) your work

    Online comments represent a rich opportunity for journalists to tell the story of their work, get on the record about their integrity and answer questions about their ethics and process. 

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    Engage to Build Trust

    Trusting News is sharing best practices for engaging audiences and building trust. How do you know what your community thinks of your work?

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  • API Update

    American Press Institute to help 5 local news organizations improve their relationships with communities

    The Mobilizing News sprint for Table Stakes alumni will challenge participating teams to center community in their outreach, relationships and reporting. 

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    Opinion journalism and sustainability: Publishers find out what works

    Opinion editors today are actively engaged in demonstrating to their publishers that their content contributes to the bottom line. While they say their primary mission is to inform the community, engage in meaningful discourse and influence outcomes, they also see reader data, and reader revenue, as an important part of their work.

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  • Special Edition

    Lessons from the field + a starter checklist

    We invited newsroom leaders to talk about their transition to GA4 and I’ve pulled together some highlights of our conversation.

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