The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Letrell Deshan Crittenden will join our team as Director of Inclusion and Audience Growth on Monday, [...]
If you’re now persuaded to jump into a work redesign, get ready to start with what Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer calls “an almost anthropological” study [...]
Can work design be applied in newsrooms? Don’t bother making the argument that the media industry is “different.” The experts disagree with you. “If you’ve [...]
“An organization that goes through massive transitions faces the question of what are the things that we want to hold on to? And what are [...]
Worker stress in the journalism industry has existed for so many decades that journalists sometimes seem resigned to a life of impending burnout. Back in [...]
The lone editor at a small newsroom owned by a large corporation was overwhelmed, once again. A few big stories had consumed his entire staff [...]
Journalism is an economically precarious profession particularly for local media organizations, and that fact alone is stressful enough. Add unpredictable work hours, lack of resources, [...]
In April, The Washington Post made an unusual request to local journalists across America: Contribute freelance articles to a special Washington Post Magazine issue designed [...]
On February 13, the Charleston Post & Courier published an investigative project that examined what happens to South Carolina communities where no viable local media [...]
For many local newsrooms across the country, it took a global pandemic to demonstrate how quickly and successfully newsroom leaders could restructure their coverage to [...]