News leaders gather from across the country for our highly participatory, invitation-based convenings that provide a welcoming and collaborative space for local media decision-makers and experts to think boldly. These summits encourage actionable ideas and advance solutions for a specific challenge.

Why API Local News Summits

Share and grow

Inform each piece of the interactive program, exchange insights and even teach other innovative news leaders

Tap into new ideas

Be encouraged by ideas and research from outside of journalism to find new solutions to industry challenges

Find inspiration

Experience how local art galleries and collaborative venues contribute to transformational thinking and doing

Build your network

Become part of the larger API community and get ongoing support with virtual reunions and other opportunities

Upcoming Local News Summits

in Nashville to build on community history and assets for developing new revenue

in Denver to bridge civically-oriented coverage and conversation across generations

in Washington D.C. to create new pathways into employment for the diverse community members local media serve

Hearing from my fellow opinion editors from operations large and (mostly) small was inspiring and illuminating. (Opinion Summit)

Jim Dao, Boston Globe

In a week where so many of us are reeling from moral injury, you have helped to repair that harm and give us hope for the future of our industry. It was one of the best journalism conferences I’ve ever attended. (Mental Health Summit)

Julia Hotz, Solutions Journalism Network

I must commend you for handpicking such exceptional leaders and speakers. The training sessions were engaging, thoughtful, and game-changing. I enjoyed every minute of it. (Belonging Summit)

Dr. Kortni Alston, Ph.D., Gardner-Webb University

This event more than met my expectations. One of my biggest challenges in working with organizations like API is that my newsroom (The Keene Sentinel) is often the smallest, most rural organization at a program. Here, we were among peers who work with similar resources as we do. The most important part of this summit, for me, was that the program provided not only great ideas (which we have in abundance in my newsroom), but also tips and demonstrations of how to actually put these ideas into action. (Rural Summit)

Jack Rooney, Keene Sentinel

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Interested in partnership or sponsorship opportunities related to API Local News Summits? Please email Kevin Loker at funding@pressinstitute.org.