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    Challenge No. 4: Rethinking beats, retraining reporters

    For many local newsrooms across the country, it took a global pandemic to demonstrate how quickly and successfully newsroom leaders could restructure their coverage to [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    Challenge No. 3: Fighting a real fight against misinformation

    Although not always the originator of misinformation, social media communities are an amplifier for conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns — and they’re also victims of [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    Challenge No. 2: Making diversity, equity and inclusion more than theoretical

    The critical issue of diversity in local newsrooms and in community coverage was never more apparent than during the national racial reckoning of 2020. Now [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    Challenge No. 1: Keeping those new ‘Covid readers’

    News organizations often get an “audience bump” during major breaking news, but the COVID-19 pandemic offered something unique: a prolonged news event that had readers [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    How local news organizations are taking steps to recover from a year of trauma

    More than a year after the global pandemic became official, local journalism still grapples with the fallout — not only from the coronavirus but also [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    How to reinvest your time

    For many people, the knee-jerk reaction to shedding work is immediately to find other stuff (more meaningful stuff!) to replace it with. That’s not really [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    How to stop doing so many stories

    It’s not just journalists who are overwhelmed with information. Audiences are too. People are consuming media all day long, in one form or another. So [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    A simple framework for deciding what to stop doing

    It’s surprisingly difficult for organizations of any kind to stop doing things. And the more complex the thing (or the organization), the harder it can [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    How newsrooms can do less work – but have more impact

    Editor’s note, 2024: Want to learn how API’s Emily Ristow trains news organizations on Stop Doing, and how outlets have successfully implemented this practice into [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    The Sound of Silence: Strategic Amplification

    Once a news organization identifies something as false, the question becomes how to cover it, if at all. The instinct of most news people when [...]

    December 11, 2019
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