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    Why the work matters: Talking about source tracking

    Source tracking can be a daunting task, but if you take some time to talk through the process and intended impact with staff first it will only help you explain your work to your audiences—especially at a time in our society when doing this necessary self-reflection and reparative work can face pushback from politicians and the public.

    April 2, 2024
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    Explore your data: Make the most of custom reports

    Custom reports enable you to easily access and organize your raw data to more deeply explore your data and answer important audience questions. A core [...]

    April 2, 2024
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    Join us to imagine rural journalism as community convener

    Call for applications is now closed. Americans use news and information to make decisions and thrive. But local news has other roles that complement gathering [...]

    April 1, 2024
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    How moral injury is impacting the news industry and what you can do about it

    Experts define moral injury as the suffering that comes from witnessing, perpetrating or failing to prevent events that violate one’s own deeply held moral beliefs and values. It is not classified as a mental illness, but it can lead to depression, substance abuse or burnout, which is one reason news managers need to understand the phenomenon of moral injury — and ways to address it or head it off.

    March 21, 2024
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    Host a successful community listening session: Advice from API Inclusion Index leaders

    Community listening is a crucial tenet of improving community engagement, along with asset mapping and collaborating with other local news outlets — all part of the API Inclusion Index cohort’s efforts toward better engaging communities of color.

    March 14, 2024
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    Civic discourse doesn’t end at the ballot box. Here’s why you should plan ahead.


    We challenge local news organizations to smartly deploy their resources around the elections that most matter to their communities in 2024 — and also to think about how that energy builds to something more robust and sustained.

    February 15, 2024
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    API Inclusion Index cohort learns community listening and asset mapping basics in Pittsburgh

    The cohort came to the in-person training session with enthusiasm and will to begin to make a change with how they best serve the communities they engage with and report on.

    December 12, 2023
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    An evolution of the mission of The American Press Institute

    Journalism has the power to connect our communities, to bring out the best in what our society can be. Our goal is to help us all get there. 

    December 5, 2023
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    Build newsroom habits with source tracking

    With all of the demands on a newsroom, how do you make time to build new habits in pursuit of larger goals?

    October 18, 2023
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    5 ways to support source tracking in your newsroom

    The cohort shares its learnings with newsrooms working to identify gaps and opportunities to broaden sourcing and find ways to better reflect the deep diversity of communities in their coverage.

    October 5, 2023
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