The American Press Institute developed this worksheet as a guide to getting you started with identifying a topic and building a single-subject news site.
Before starting, be sure you’ve read this Strategy Study.
Consider sitting down with a few creative collaborators from across your organization to tackle these questions together.
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When we began asking what kind of stories still mattered to Baca County, we realized many of them weren’t “breaking news” but generational memory. And the paper was the last remaining platform that treated those memories with care and context.
Leaning into local identity and history can move our journalism from ‘we provide facts alone’ to ‘we provide facts and serve other important community functions.’
Here are a few ideas for activating your archives that participants brought to the recent API Summit on Local History, Community and Identity in Nashville — plus some ideas we all brought home to try out in the weeks and months to come.
