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The American Press Institute announced today that CEO and Executive Director Michael D. Bolden will join the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as its eighth dean this summer.

The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice journalism, has developed a sustainable approach to building a learning culture through two key initiatives.

Reaching people across age groups is a complex proposition for news leaders. It involves identifying issues and topics that resonate with all ages, creating content on multiple platforms, and finding ways for people to move past assumptions about one another. But the current moment in America demands this kind of work.

We assembled a working group of news leaders determined to find solutions to help their peers navigate the process of building capacity and strengthening cultures of learning.

Newsday, which has about 200 editorial staff, has in recent years launched and evolved a number of staff development initiatives that have garnered significant engagement. We will explore three of them: reporter roundtables, data office hours and alternative story formats.

We should work to become trauma-informed news leaders — no matter where we sit in the shop — and be intentional to practice this when the stakes are lowest.

That opportunity to both deepen a community’s ties to its roots and find new ways to build revenue matters in today’s local news landscape -- and might be an opportunity for the effort to rally new philanthropic support for local news.

Programming will involve both publicly available training, including webinars, and resources for the field, such as those from API’s work with influencer collaborations.

While the newsroom can hold a unique position as convener and connector, this function goes beyond the newsroom to support healthy, thriving communities and neighborhoods.

This initiative will help participants develop influencer collaborations around their journalism, including co-hosted Instagram reels to share reporting and promote products, explanatory reporting, ongoing partnerships and live events.