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    American Press Institute receives funding to help newspapers put digital in the forefront and reduce reliance on print

    The American Press Institute (API), a nonprofit dedicated to helping transform news organizations for an audience-centered future, today announced a new initiative that will help [...]

    March 1, 2022
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    Welcome API’s new Metrics for News team member, Shay Totten

    The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Shay Totten has joined our team as Newsroom Success Manager. In his role, Totten will work [...]

    January 10, 2022
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    These news orgs are building beats from reader donations

    Asking audiences to make a donation to support journalism may not have been something many local news organizations — apart from public media newsrooms, that [...]

    November 3, 2021
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    How Newsday and The Spokesman-Review keep more subscribers

    On September 28, API hosted an online discussion on tactics for retaining subscribers. Many publishers are recognizing the critical need to invest more in subscriber [...]

    October 12, 2021
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    How to stop doing work that underperforms: Advice from 4 newsrooms

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve heard from the newsrooms we work with is that there’s not enough time. Journalism has always been a high-stress [...]

    August 11, 2021
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    Track the diversity of your sources with Source Matters — an easy automated tool from API

    In recent months we at the American Press Institute have taken a deep dive into how news organizations can expand their sourcing to represent fairly [...]

    June 21, 2021
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    Challenging conventional customer service methods

    Integrating departments to break down silos, optimizing the customer experience and investing in high-touch service are all effective ways for news outlets to improve their [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Investing in ‘high-touch’ customer service

    Automated phone systems, online self-service portals and other low-touch tactics have become the standard when it comes to customer service across industries. Companies these days [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Making the customer experience frictionless

    After breaking down organizational silos and integrating different systems, news outlets should get more granular in assessing areas where they can improve the customer service [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Breaking down silos and integrating departments for better communication

    As news outlets increasingly rely on digital subscriptions as a primary revenue source, many are finding that barriers separating their print and digital functions — [...]

    May 24, 2021
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