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It's a wrap for Day 2 of the API Local News Summit for Table Stakes Alumni: Fostering Belonging and Collaboration. 💡 ⭐ “Belonging and collaboration are central to sustainability. They are business imperatives – they are just as important as P&Ls. And they are things you must create space for.” - Michael D. B.. Today, participants: ✅ Learned lessons on belonging and collaboration from non-journalism experts, including Dr. Kortni Alston Lemon, Ph.D., MBA, Marci Alboher, Dr. Randal Pinkett, Mary Gentile, LaTonya Wilkins and Bunny McKensie Mack. ✅ Joined a Lego Series Play workshop led by Leah Phifer to generate creative approaches to building inclusive work environments. Thank you to all the attendees and to our sponsor The Knight Foundation - Lenfest Institute for Journalism Local News Transformation Fund! 🎉 #localnews

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We are excited to announce the grantees of API's 2024 Election Coverage and Community Listening Fund! These grants will help 21 local and community-based media organizations augment their community engagement work around local elections and beyond. 🎉 “We believe in helping news organizations conduct experiments that improve their coverage and sustain trusted community relationships,” said Michael D. B., API’s CEO and executive director. “It is a vital part of the work newsrooms are doing in 2024 and should be doing every day.” Congratulations to ABC10, Atlanta Civic Circle, Baltimore Beat, Black Voice News, Charlottesville Tomorrow, Conecta Arizona, The Dallas Morning News, Detroit Free Press, Haitian Times, Honolulu Civil Beat, LAist , Louisville Public Media, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mississippi Free Press, Radio Ambulante Studios, Rocky Mountain PBS, The Salt Lake Tribune, San Antonio Report, The Missoulian, The Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO, VTDigger. 👏 https://lnkd.in/ecBDkpkU #localnews

Today, we kicked off day 1 of the API Local News Summit for Table Stakes Alumni: Fostering Belonging and Collaboration. 👏 We gathered more than 60 media leaders and non-news experts in Minneapolis to examine how belonging and collaboration build off one another. 💡 “We will foster belonging and collaboration. We will build a more resilient culture. If we can’t do it, no one can do it.” - Tom Huang, assistant managing editor for journalism initiatives at the The Dallas Morning News. 🎉 Thank you to our sponsor for making this summit possible, The Knight Foundation - Lenfest Institute for Journalism Local News Transformation Fund. #localnews

Sustainability goes beyond finances. To do better journalism, we must also focus on building community, inside and outside of the newsroom. In this month's series, API's Letrell D. shares advice on building accountability into community engagement practices. The first installment features a Q&A with Andrea Wenzel, who shared the challenges of doing good journalism in the face of DEI pushback (written by Antoinette Isama). Read here: https://lnkd.in/eNZbVahc #localnews #communityengagement

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