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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.

Building and framing media training programs as youth development opportunities can unlock larger, much-needed sources of revenue.

Lookout’s classroom and teacher initiatives extend its mission across generations — and provide a new source of revenue.

Journalism for All, a replicable model that brings journalism education and paid opportunities to underserved schools, grows tomorrow’s reporters, subscribers and news consumers.

We gathered news leaders and non-news experts to discuss what it looks like to build sustainable youth engagement efforts into their coverage and fundraising. We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are funding experiments with youth engagement in their communities.

Stet News’ leadership sought API’s perspective on next-gen topics, pluralism and community engagement, leading them to recognize the importance of engaging the next generation of news readers and writers.

Newsday had two primary goals when it brought MFN into its newsroom: build stronger data literacy and adopt data-informed decision-making to drive revenue. With MFN, data has become a critical part of how the Newsday team makes decisions and builds relationships with the Long Island community. 

As part of API’s Influencers Learning Cohort, Factchequeado developed a culturally relevant training to help creators produce quality and accurate content. This training was delivered virtually to creators in Ecuador, and an in-person training was held in New York in early 2026. 

Case studies, like the ones in our 2025 impact report, are an opportunity to highlight those findings and spotlight some of the organizations that have partnered with API to collaborate, innovate and advance solutions for their communities. 

When we founded The 51st, we wanted to lead a news organization shaped by D.C. residents. And the Community Connector program has become an integral way of doing so.