We at the American Press Institute are excited to participate in person this year at NICAR22, the Investigative Reporters & Editors’ annual data journalism conference.  Liz Worthington, API’s Director of Metrics for News and Source Matters, will join a session to talk about tracking the diversity of sources (Saturday, March 5, at 10:45 a.m EST). […]

The American Press Institute (API), a nonprofit dedicated to helping transform news organizations for an audience-centered future, today announced a new initiative that will help guide newspaper organizations away from print models and toward a sustainable digital future. The goal of this initiative is to ensure that the organizations that participate are prepared with a […]

The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Ariam Alula has joined our team as Editorial Associate. In her role, Alula will contribute to and further develop editorial initiatives across the organization, especially our Need to Know newsletter.  Alula brings a range of skills and interests to API, including in newsletter curation, audience strategy […]

The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Stephen Jefferson has joined our team as Senior Applications Engineer. In his role, Jefferson will work with the team that manages API’s proprietary analytics tool Metrics for News and its new source diversity tracking tool Source Matters.  Jefferson brings more than 15 years of experience developing […]

The American Press Institute, an affiliate of the News Media Alliance dedicated to helping news publishers navigate and adapt to organizational and industry change to sustain journalism, today announced it has hired Michael D. Bolden as its new Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. Bolden, currently the director of culture and operations at the San […]

The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Shay Totten has joined our team as Newsroom Success Manager. In his role, Totten will work with the Metrics for News team, supporting publishers in their use of analytics to inform content strategy. Metrics for News is a product of the American Press Institute. The highly […]

The American Press Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to helping transform news organizations for an audience-centered future, today announced the five community engagement experts supporting news organizations in its Listening & Sustainability Lab in partnership with the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund at Borealis Philanthropy. Each of these “listening advisers” supports one of five publishers of […]

Is your newsroom working to broaden the diversity of your sources to better reflect and serve the communities you cover? There are many ways to go about this work and one of the tangible ways to get started is to start the practice of auditing and monitoring sources quoted in local stories. For many newsrooms, […]

The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Kamaria Roberts joined our team as Deputy Director of Local News Transformation on Monday, Oct. 18. In her role, Roberts will work with the Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program, an innovative yearlong change management program supported by the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund. The Table […]

The American Press Institute today announced that 10 local news organizations will receive funding through the Local News Ideas-to-Action Fund, API’s new initiative to support accountability and government reporting that better prioritizes the needs of local communities. The selected projects reflect a deep commitment from journalists and their organizations toward understanding and responding to the […]