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Local news organizations have always had to navigate change: shifts in audience behavior and expectations, technology and product development, revenue and consumer value, and their [...]

Civic trust is bigger than whether people trust a news organization. It includes the role local media can play in helping people understand their communities, participate in civic life and navigate differences with one another.

Share how the American Press Institute helped change how you lead, think or serve your community — and pay it forward to those shaping local news next.

Across all of our work, we’ve learned that the best solutions start with the people closest to the problem. We use evidence to inform what we do, create room to experiment and share what we learn so others can build on it.

Ambassador64 is helping Rocky Mountain Public Media build two-way communication channels and grassroots advisory networks so more Coloradans can feel truly seen and heard, and our statewide civic fabric grows stronger.

To help us think about impact in a more structured way, one technique we’ve developed is the impact strategy meeting. The goal is simple: Create focused time for us to strategize on how a project can have the most impact possible.

The sidebar Planet Detroit built so readers could participate gave us something we'd never had: a civic engagement rate we can compute story by story.

By asking fundamental questions, NC Local figured out how to manage the influx of data that was crowding out other signals of impact

We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are defining, measuring and acting on signals of impact.

When you shine a positive spotlight on youth by letting them tell their own stories, you can build trusted relationships and engage news’ next generation.