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    Applications open for API Influencers Learning Cohort (2025)

    Participating news organizations will receive $3,000 to establish connections and collaborate with local influencers or trusted messengers.

    February 3, 2025
  • API Update

    American Press Institute awards 31 new election community engagement grants alongside Knight Election Hub

    The new grants specifically help augment community engagement efforts with at least one of two strategies for community engagement: community listening and conversations, and the strategic use of print.

    September 24, 2024
  • API Update

    Influencer collaborations in election coverage a focus in new American Press Institute program alongside Knight Election Hub

    Six news organizations will experiment with local influencers or trusted messengers to share their nonpartisan local journalism on elections in 2024 as part of a new American Press Institute program for the Knight Election Hub.

    September 19, 2024
  • API Update

    American Press Institute awards grants to 21 news organizations as part of its 2024 Election Coverage and Community Listening Fund

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

    July 10, 2024
  • API Update

    Trusting News to become an independent organization

    After five years of being fiscally sponsored by the American Press Institute, Trusting News is growing and entering a new chapter.

    June 5, 2024
  • API Update

    American Press Institute redesigns Better News website, a hub for news innovators

    The American Press Institute refreshed the Better News website, a hub for original case studies and curated best practices for local news organizations, to improve the user experience for its readers and align it with new API branding.

    May 17, 2024
  • API Update

    American Press Institute awards $30,000 in grants to six news organizations as part of a live events training program

    The grants will help participating organizations host events that cultivate productive community engagement, build community trust, and strengthen their revenue and resilience. 

    April 17, 2024
  • API Update

    American Press Institute expands collaboration with AP, launches election coverage webinar series

    The two organizations will provide a series of monthly webinars to local media leaders and journalists in the months leading up to the 2024 U.S. elections, and share practical resources throughout the year to support news organizations’ evolving needs around local elections and democracy.

    March 7, 2024
  • API Update

    Join us to imagine local election coverage this year — and what follows

    The API Local News Summit on Elections, Trust and Democracy is invitation-based, but we want to grow the network of those empowering their communities to make decisions in elections and beyond.

    February 28, 2024
  • API Update

    Six news organizations join the American Press Institute’s cohort to design live events

    Six news organizations will participate in the American Press Institute’s live events sprint program, a five-month cohort aimed at helping news organizations design and market [...]

    February 6, 2024
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