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    How local news organizations are taking steps to recover from a year of trauma

    More than a year after the global pandemic became official, local journalism still grapples with the fallout — not only from the coronavirus but also [...]

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    What journalists need in a chaotic news environment: Lessons from 2020

    Elections in recent years have been marred by false and misleading claims of fraud. Anticipating an acceleration of the trend, editors and news directors from [...]

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    How to reinvest your time

    For many people, the knee-jerk reaction to shedding work is immediately to find other stuff (more meaningful stuff!) to replace it with. That’s not really [...]

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    How to stop doing so many stories

    It’s not just journalists who are overwhelmed with information. Audiences are too. People are consuming media all day long, in one form or another. So [...]

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    A simple framework for deciding what to stop doing

    It’s surprisingly difficult for organizations of any kind to stop doing things. And the more complex the thing (or the organization), the harder it can [...]

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    How newsrooms can do less work – but have more impact

    Editor’s note, 2024: Want to learn how API’s Emily Ristow trains news organizations on Stop Doing, and how outlets have successfully implemented this practice into [...]

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    Keeping opinion local: The benefits of cutting national politics from opinion sections

    When news organizations face cuts, opinion editors and writers are some of the first on the chopping block: Their work can be replaced by that [...]

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    Broadening the moral values addressed in a news story can increase trust

    Americans who value loyalty and authority most highly tend to be the most skeptical of the news media. In experiments with readers, however, we see [...]

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    A new way of looking at trust in media: Do Americans share journalism’s core values?

    The deep divides over trust in the news media are usually portrayed as largely ideological. Democrats are seven times more likely than Republicans to say [...]

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    Study methodology for ‘Do Americans share journalism’s core values?’

    This study was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute (API) and The Associated Press NORC Center for Public [...]

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