Want to know an inconvenient truth about the journalism industry in America? Ideas to address the challenges facing ...

Social media has become a more challenging space for news outlets to reach audiences; data from Chartbeat found that traffic from social media has dropped by one-third since January 2023, writes Laura ...

The American Press Institute started publishing resources in November 2023 to help local media improve local election coverage for 2024. We wanted to start empowering news leaders early on to consider ...

The American Press Institute awarded grants to 31 local and community-based media across the country as part of expanded work with the Knight Election Hub, an initiative of the John S. and James L.

News organizations spend so much time planning for and covering elections that the work to be done afterward can almost come as a rude awakening: What — we have to keep going? Some newsrooms face the ...

Groups aligned with Democrats and Republicans are planning to pour a couple hundred million dollars into state legislative battles that will culminate with the November general election. Nearly 5,800 ...

In her latest Substack newsletter, Margaret Sullivan writes the excellent work of student journalists around the country makes her hopeful about journalism. She highlights the impressive investigative ...

As communities grow, audiences change and coverage needs evolve, can journalists make empirical choices about what to cover and how to cover it? That was a question 10 years ago when I came to the ...

Kevin Loker, senior director for program operations and partnerships at the American Press Institute, recently completed a visiting fellowship with the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Six news organizations will experiment with local influencers or trusted messengers to share their nonpartisan local journalism on elections in 2024 as part of a new American Press Institute program ...

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