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    Want the perfect manager? Here’s how to build one.

    Putting the onus on one person alone for your growth and success is never fair — you need co-collaborators and co-conspirators across generations, genders, racial identities and more.

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    User manuals can help establish empathy and shift team dynamics

    Being intentional about how you create team culture with your small, low-stakes responses to daily tasks, conversations and pressure can shift team dynamics and help you be a more curious, empathetic and deliberate leader.

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    Introducing API’s 2023 Source Matters cohort

    Thirteen news organizations are starting 2023 as part of a cohort assembled by the American Press Institute to track the diversity of people quoted in their stories through Source Matters, API’s award-winning source diversity tracking and analysis tool.

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    Leadership Reset Series

    Each week, Sam Ragland will share a common leadership challenge and an exercise you can complete to help you navigate and overcome that challenge.

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    Addressing misinformation with audiences under 40: An industry challenge

    News organizations need to figure out how to show Gen Z and Millennials why their content is more trustworthy than everything else on the internet

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    American Press Institute’s Beyond Print program awards $60,000 in grants to four news organizations to test digital revenue strategies

    The American Press Institute awarded grants to four news organizations participating in the Beyond Print program, a cohort designed to guide publishers away from print-centric [...]

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    Information on traffic, weather, or transportation

    Who are the Americans ages 16 to 40 who are most closely following information on traffic, weather, or transportation, and how are they encountering it?

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    How we explored the topics Gen Z and Millennials most closely follow

    Overall, Americans ages 16 to 40 pay at least some attention to many topics. On average, they follow nine different topics in our list, often a mix of “lifestyle,” “news you can use,” and “hard news” topics. 

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    Knowing the news: How Gen Z and Millennials get information on essential topics

    Millennials and members of Generation Z will soon become the industry’s dominant generations of news consumers and subscribers. What news topics do they follow most often, and how do they get that coverage? 

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    National politics or government

    This section examines the demographics and news behavior of the 15% of Millennials and Gen Z who say they most closely follow national politics or government. 

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