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Culture & Inclusion

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    Week One Challenges

    Five actions to take this week to build resilient mental health habits.

    October 2, 2023
  • Special Edition

    How community engagement can inform source tracking

    You will never know how your community is engaging with your coverage unless you ask. Our partners at the Record-Journal in Meriden, Conn., experienced this firsthand after holding more than 80 conversations with community members and hearing from more than 2,000 survey respondents. 

    September 25, 2023
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    How to get staff buy-in for tracking sources

    It is okay if this takes longer to get off the ground than you think it will. 

    September 18, 2023
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    Diversify Your Sources

    Katie Kutsko amplifies insights and shares resources she's learned alongside newsrooms who track the diversity of people quoted in their stories through Source Matters, API’s award-winning source diversity tracking and analysis tool. 

    September 5, 2023
  • Article

    How to audit sources: A guide to help you get started

    This guide will help you track sources in your journalism. API assembled a cohort of newsrooms in 2023 to track the diversity of people quoted [...]

    August 9, 2023
  • Article

    Want to protect democracy? Support the mental health of journalists

    If you want a truly accurate and helpful public square, one capable of helping a pluralistic democratic republic survive, you have to think about the well-being of the people who make up the press.

    August 3, 2023
  • Special Edition

    How news leaders can foster psychological safety

    This week’s mental health reset asks you to interrogate how your contributions create a psychologically safe workplace.

    July 31, 2023
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    Journalists and mental health: An API resource guide

    This guide is an effort to point to and organize resources in ways that can be helpful to journalists looking to put words to what they’re feeling and manage those stresses, as well as resources for managers and first-person accounts from peers.

    July 31, 2023
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    Four questions to prompt creativity

    Creativity is good for the group, and today, I want to encourage even tired, uninspired news leaders to cut through the monotony of the status quo and infuse a level of creativity into their daily flow.  

    July 24, 2023
  • Special Edition

    Building healthy news teams to reduce stress

    Connection has the power to counterbalance adversity. And this adversity, difficulty or distress can be self-inflicted as often as it can be unavoidable by outside factors.

    July 17, 2023
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