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    Announcing the second round of grantees for the Trusted Elections Network Fund

    The American Press Institute today announced additional recipients of its Trusted Elections Network Fund micro-grants.  New funding to expand this initiative to improve audience-centered elections [...]

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    Covering the gears of democracy: How three election reporters are connecting readers to politics by explaining the right to vote

    They’re not conventional political journalists, but they might have the most important beat of 2020. This election year was going to be different even before [...]

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    How Santa Cruz Local proved the value of community engagement to staff

    Founded in January 2019, Santa Cruz Local is a local news platform that produces a podcast, newsletter and website about public policy in Santa Cruz [...]

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    How the Detroit Free Press partnered to engage underserved communities

    The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper covering Detroit, Michigan. At 189 years old, it is the local paper of record. The Free [...]

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    How The Pilot used reader data to boost digital subscriptions

    The Pilot is a 100-year-old newspaper that covers Moore County, North Carolina, and publishes biweekly. As of August 2020, it had a print circulation of [...]

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    Local news sustainability: API advisers highlight three paths forward

    As the coronavirus ravages local journalism outlets across America — resulting in countless layoffs, furloughs and closures — it has laid bare how much we [...]

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    Announcing the first round of grantees for the Trusted Elections Network Fund

    The American Press Institute’s Trusted Elections Network today announced the first round of micro-grants to support local news outlets with special projects to provide accurate [...]

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    American Press Institute introduces 2020 Table Stakes coaches

    The American Press Institute (API) today announced the addition of six news leaders from across the journalism industry who will coach news organizations in this [...]

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    How listening informed La Estrella de Tucsón’s reporting during COVID-19

    When COVID-19 infection rates began rising in southern Arizona in early spring, two things quickly became clear: one, predominantly Hispanic communities were suffering more than [...]

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    Forming a community advisory board for your newsroom

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