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A community advisory committee can help a newsroom in various ways, from informing a newsroom on specific topics to helping guide news coverage.

API's summit on Elections, Trust and Democracy led to a 5-step process for how news organizations can do this work now — and year-round.

Asset mapping — identifying a community’s official and unofficial existing resources — can be an important groundwork for engagement.

True or untrue, fair or unfair, what is being shared is the perception you are dealing with in the community. Learning about this is why you are there.

The grants will help local and community-based media across the country augment their community engagement work around local elections and beyond.

Andrea Wenzel is an associate professor in Temple University’s Department of Journalism. In 2020, she wrote Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust. [...]

Sustainability cannot simply focus on finances. If we want to do better journalism, sustainability must also focus on building community, inside and outside of the newsroom.

At the API Local News Summit on Rural Journalism, Community and Sustainability in Tulsa, journalists noted one skill they had and could leverage more and one skill they needed to develop to be better conveners, facilitators and connectors. Four categories of skills stuck out that local journalists and news leaders need to better and more impactfully embrace these new roles.

What is a Critical Conversation? | Printable discussion guide Despite all the planning for it, Election Day is one of those news events that can [...]

Today, the playbook serves as an ethics document that explains how we care for the technology in our products and the humans building and using them.