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    IWMF Election Safety Crash Course

    This month, API is partnering with the International Women’s Media Foundation to share election safety tips from their Newsroom Safety Across America initiative. IWMF and [...]

    August 12, 2024
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    API Inclusion Index accountability rubric

    If newsrooms are going to deliver on promises to become more diverse, engage better, improve coverage of communities of color or build trust within marginalized communities, they need to be held accountable for when they fail to deliver on promises. That is why we are adding accountability to the Index.

    August 5, 2024
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    Building a public-facing accountability structure

    You cannot improve journalism — much less engagement, trust and inclusion — without building structures that hold news workers and outlets accountable for their actions.

    August 5, 2024
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    Community advisory committee do’s and don’ts

    A community advisory committee can help a newsroom in various ways, from informing a newsroom on specific topics to helping guide news coverage.

    July 29, 2024
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    Asset mapping 101

    Asset mapping — identifying a community’s official and unofficial existing resources — can be an important groundwork for engagement.

    July 22, 2024
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    Eight tips for hosting a successful, inclusive listening session

    True or untrue, fair or unfair, what is being shared is the perception you are dealing with in the community. Learning about this is why you are there.

    July 15, 2024
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    Andrea Wenzel on creating equitable news organizations

    Andrea Wenzel is an associate professor in Temple University’s Department of Journalism. In 2020, she wrote Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust. [...]

    July 8, 2024
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    Building Accountability and Engagement in News

    Sustainability cannot simply focus on finances. If we want to do better journalism, sustainability must also focus on building community, inside and outside of the newsroom.

    July 8, 2024
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    Adaptive playbooks for uncertain times

    Today, the playbook serves as an ethics document that explains how we care for the technology in our products and the humans building and using them.

    June 24, 2024
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    Identify your maintenance mantra

    How to understand behaviors and habits for maintaining the project until its completion.

    June 17, 2024
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