Special Edition

Practical exercises inspired by Tom Rosenstiel's The Next Journalism aimed to help news leaders further level up their journalism and give their communities the information they need to thrive.

We’ll dig into three areas that are important to the future of local journalism: civic trust, people and culture and organizational resilience.

How do we bridge that gap between the standard KPIs and those mushier signals of your work’s impact — how can you identify and quantify what’s changing in the lives and perceptions of the communities you serve?

Three frameworks for how journalists can engage with non-news experts and researchers to help solve a problem, rethink a beat or collaborate on an experiment

We're making new Media Insight Project research actionable for local news leaders, offering a tactic you can try each week, supported by the study’s findings.

We’re almost halfway through the year, and Mental Health Awareness Month is a good time to pause and reflect on our well-being and that of our newsrooms.

Each week will offer a combination of frameworks to inspire new approaches to your election coverage and strategic suggestions you can put in place right away. Look for an idea that aligns with your organization’s mission or your community’s needs, and dig into resources to try it out.

We have an opportunity to facilitate civic discourse within our communities in a way that’s mutually beneficial. But if we don’t do this work thoughtfully — if we show up with a rigid agenda and our own goals — it can cause more harm than good.

When local newsrooms give people the tools and platforms for creative storytelling, they’re also building trust and supporting the creative and cultural health of their communities. Here's how for news leaders did just that.

New year, same old meetings. Meetings that don’t include the right people or that include too many people. Meetings that could have been an email. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? As we kick off 2026, API wants to help you reset and rethink key meetings in your news organization.