
Kevin Loker
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Research at American Press Institute
Program operations and partnerships @AmPress. Visiting Fellow @SNFAgoraJHU '23-'24. My better half is @lauramloker. | Opinions my own.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
The American Press Institute is convening its second API Local News Summit of 2025, addressing a challenge shared by local and community-based media of all types: commercial or nonprofit, rural or urban, start-up or legacy. In our current moment and going forward, how might local media bridge civically-oriented coverage and conversation across generations? An inclusive democracy and society requires collaboration from all Americans, regardless of age.
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3 weeks ago |
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
Although news fatigue is on the rise, people often have an endless reservoir of love and care for the places they live and the neighborhoods they call home. This presents opportunities for local news leaders who want to strengthen community relationships that sustain their businesses. In April, the American Press Institute convened nearly 70 news leaders and experts from non-news spaces for our Local News Summit on Local Identity, History and Sustainability in Nashville, Tenn.
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3 weeks ago |
editorandpublisher.com | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
Posted Monday, April 21, 2025 10:45 am If a good newspaper, as the playwright Arthur Miller said, is a “nation talking to itself,” then it follows that a good local news organization must be a town, or a community, doing the same thing.
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4 weeks ago |
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
If a good newspaper, as the playwright Arthur Miller said, is a “nation talking to itself,” then it follows that a good local news organization must be a town, or a community, doing the same thing. But those conversations are quite different today than when Miller made this observation more than six decades ago. And journalists’ role in the discussion has changed amid a splintered media environment, political polarization, economic uncertainty and a national epidemic of loneliness.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
editorandpublisher.com | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
After four months of learning and experiments, our American Press Institute and Knight Election Hub cohort on influencer collaborations has concluded.
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