Our Mission
We support local and community-based media through research, programs and products that foster healthy, responsive and resilient news organizations.
Our Areas of Focus
We work to ensure all people have the information they need to make decisions and thrive.
We mentor journalism professionals toward integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in every aspect of their work.
We support news organizations as they build trusted relationships with their communities.
We provide news organizations with the tools and resources they need to think creatively and achieve overall wellness.
Featured Research
Longtime philanthropic supporters of journalism are doubling down on local journalism specifically—and encouraging others to join them.
How might you partner with philanthropy or take donations to bolster your opinion section’s role as a convener and contributor to civic discourse?
News leaders have told us that they want to better support reporters and editors who will be covering an election for the first time. That’s why we’re sharing portions of this media guide to covering elections and voting from The Elections Group.
Special Editions & Series
New year, same old meetings. Meetings that don’t include the right people or that include too many people. Meetings that could have been an email. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? As we kick off 2026, API wants to help you reset and rethink key meetings in your news organization.
We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are empowering communities with skills and opportunities to have influence in their local news ecosystem.
It’s been a busy year for us: we held three API Local News Summits, built out a comprehensive guide to partnering with influencers, encouraged experiments with grants and cohorts, and supported news organizations with our products.
API Products & Programs
Helping journalists and media leaders transform their local news businesses to better serve diverse communities
Improving how newsrooms cover communities of color by assessing seven areas to reveal inequitable practices
