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      Funders of local history initiatives can find partners in local media

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    How to create an emotionally safe space

    Anyone can work toward creating emotional safety anywhere they have agency over the room or in the space. This is a quick look at ways to operationalize emotional safety, whether in-person, virtual, one-time or ongoing.

    January 22, 2024
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    How journalists care: A framework for building trust and relevance

    Care involves the ability to hear, understand and recognize others’ needs and feelings. Centering care, though, goes one step further by taking on the work [...]

    January 16, 2024
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    Journalism With Care

    How can we center care when examining who gets to select and tell stories, how and where they are told, how stories are heard and responded to?

    January 8, 2024
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    How journalists benefit from questions, too

    Exploring questions is one of the best ways to expand our thinking and try on new perspectives. Questions are an act of care, both for our communities, our journalism and ourselves.

    January 8, 2024
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    API Inclusion Index cohort learns community listening and asset mapping basics in Pittsburgh

    The cohort came to the in-person training session with enthusiasm and will to begin to make a change with how they best serve the communities they engage with and report on.

    December 12, 2023
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    API Year in Review 2023

    It’s been a busy year for us: we resumed our in-person summits, expanded our training portfolio, revised our look and messaging, and offered numerous grants, products and programs to journalists.

    December 4, 2023
  • API Update

    American Press Institute’s community listening sprint awards $15,000 in grants to five news organizations

    Since June, the cohort has been learning from industry experts about growing trust with communities and creating workflows that support audience listening.

    August 16, 2023
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    Get buy-in for engagement work

    Want to shift your newsroom’s culture around engagement and building trust? Need buy-in for your ideas? Here are five tips for getting started. 

    June 26, 2023
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    Media can engage Millennials and Gen Z in community discussion. Here is where to start.

    If you care about civic discourse, young Americans and the health of local news organizations, here are some helpful insights we found from the survey.

    June 21, 2023
  • Special Edition

    Who are the journalists?

    Instead of having them assume, tell your community who you are, what has shaped you and what experience you have. Doing this makes you human and relatable. It also can make you credible, respected and trusted.

    June 20, 2023
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