The American Press Institute will offer hands-on guidance to a group of journalists in a year-long project designed to help their newsrooms improve at community listening and engagement.

As part of efforts to increase diversity and inclusivity in journalism, the American Press Institute conducts research and supports projects around listening in news. Listening — in addition to…

This is a series on Better News to a) showcase innovative/experimental ideas that emerge from the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative and b) to share replicable tactics that benefit the news industry…

In Bayfield, Ignacio, Durango and throughout La Plata County, the number of suicides is rising. The organizations on this website represent the people and resources available in our community that…

Poynter and API teamed up again this week to take a deeper look at what’s working in local news. The Durango Herald took part in Poynter’s version of the Local News Innovation Program, also known a…

Maybe you’ve given up responding to complaints about biased coverage because it just doesn’t seem to do any good. (We can help.)

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., created cross-disciplinary teams across the company — spanning the newsroom and the sales/marketing side — to launch new…

Many communities across the country today have unprecedented opportunity to converse with each other, understand one another’s views, and find workable solutions or approaches to the mutual challenges…

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Virginian-Pilot used data to find a new beat topic to reach new audiences. Now, the beat is consistently one of the highest-performing in the newsroom.

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Seattle Times blended the best of its Pulitzer-winning breaking news practices into the reporting of a major enterprise project. The result was a mix of breaking news and in-depth explanatory stories that better served audiences.

Journalists have a reputation for dismissing data about their stories. But it’s undeserved. After all, the axiom “if it bleeds, it leads” describes a newsroom practice driven by the metrics of newsstand sales and broadcast ratings. Pulitzers and Emmys are qualitative data that indicates

We are excited to announce today a new cohort of newsrooms using Metrics for News, the American Press Institute’s analytics dashboard and content strategy program. Metrics for News gives newsrooms…

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The team at EdNC couldn’t find an ideal way to gauge the loyalty of its audiences. So they created their own customizable data tool.

Well-constructed offer pages are vital to the goal of increasing reader revenue. They can influence a user’s entire perception of your publication and service — for better or worse. Each detail…

The News Integrity Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY has granted the American Press Institute $150,000 to deepen and expand its existing newsroom mentorship…

Fact-checkers in the past year have come to resemble emergency physicians doing triage in a raging epidemic. The amount of work is overwhelming, but they feel more essential than ever. Volume is not their only challenge. At both national and local levels, the journalists

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with the American Press Institute.

News readers and viewers are no longer disconnected by time or distance from those who provide them with information. They also don’t trust reporters anywhere near as much as they did in the 1970s,…

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: WFAE (Charlotte’s NPR news station) launched a daily music podcast that amplified the voices and work of the local music community.

The American Press Institute and the Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute announced a partnership today to grow and strengthen the Trusting News project, which has…

The American Press Institute offers a paid summer fellowship for college students or recent graduates who have a strong desire to advance innovation in news organizations. Unlike a summer internship,…

Anti-press sentiment, fueled in no small part by President Trump, has left news organizations looking for new ways to bolster lagging trust. One way to increase trust is to improve the transparency of newsrooms by making journalists’ information-gathering processes more visible to the public.

The American Press Institute offers a summer fellowship for college students or recent graduates to contribute to and learn from the Institute’s efforts to conduct research, convene thought leaders, create tools and publish insights that advance innovation and sustainability in journalism. The program is for students with