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Revenue & Resilience

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    4 ways local news can build local identity — and bring in new revenue

    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.’

    June 13, 2025
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    Use historical records to deepen community coverage and find new revenue streams

    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.

    June 11, 2025
  • API Update

    American Press Institute and News Revenue Hub to collaborate to help local news leaders pursue new revenue and social strategies

    Programming will involve both publicly available training, including webinars, and resources for the field, such as those from API’s work with influencer collaborations.

    May 20, 2025
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    Strategies for digital transformation

    As digital platforms and their users continue to grow and change, the ways news outlets build strategies around them will, too. These are themes we believe are key for digital transformation and sustaining and growing local news.

    April 7, 2025
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    Join us to explore how local identity and history can strengthen community engagement and sustainability

    The next API Local News Summit will be on how local and community-based media might engender a local identity and embrace their geography and history. We’ll help news leaders consider how they contribute to a community’s well-being by fostering a sense of place — and how, when done with care, this might offer new ways to sustain local news.

    February 18, 2025
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    The Digital Transformation Guide from the American Press Institute

    This guide features strategies tested and proven by local news organizations that participated in the Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program along the themes of product thinking, revenue, engaged journalism, collaboration and managing change.

    February 12, 2025
  • Special Edition

    Cultivate local identity and build revenue

    Examples of how newsrooms have spun up live events, products and third spaces to experiment with new sources of revenue while fostering community belonging.

    February 3, 2025
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    API’s guide to influencer collaborations

    As research continues to inform this slice of the news industry, we’ll continue learning, too. Who gets to be called a journalist in 2025? What is the future of trustworthy information, especially considering the access to and trust for online content creators? How might journalism adapt to the rise, or co-opt the styles, of news influencers?

    January 29, 2025
  • Series

    How two newsrooms partnered to plan an event based on an Oscar-nominated movie

    Interacting with your community and providing quality programming while providing the news may seem daunting, but it’s worth it.

    October 11, 2024
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    Local news can provide a ‘third space’ — and it makes financial sense. Here’s how we did it.

    Our belief in the brand and the business hasn’t wavered. When you’re a business with a mission, it becomes the only thing that matters.

    October 11, 2024
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