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6 days 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Kevin Loker |Samantha Ragland
“If I knew then that not every influencer views themselves as an influencer, I’d approach them differently with more structure and different terminology.”That’s just one of dozens of madlibs, insights and epiphanies collected during the Election + Influencer Learning Cohort supported by the American Press Institute and the Knight Election Hub. After four months of non-partisan, election-based influencer collaborations, the cohort concluded in January.
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2 months ago | 
americanpressinstitute.org | 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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Jan 16, 2025 | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Kevin Loker |Samantha Ragland
Americans face increasing news fatigue and dissatisfaction with national politics. But they often love and value the community they live in— and that offers opportunities for local media to embrace their geography and history in new ways. You can feel it in the naming of newer outlets. When Philadelphia’s Billy Penn started (now 10 years ago), the name pointed to the famous Founding Father whose statue sits iconically atop City Hall.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Kevin Loker |Samantha Ragland
Say the word “journalist” in our loud and online culture, and most people may think about the national coverage — especially of politics — that they see in their social media feeds or on national cable. But anyone who cares about division in our country shouldn’t forget local journalists. These people who live in the communities they serve cover what’s happening in local governments, among local businesses, the art scene and among neighbors — news that affects people deeply and daily.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
Americans face increasing news fatigue. That may feel palpable in an election year when journalists are keyed into critical issues around elections of all sizes — and polls suggest many Americans limit the information they consume or pursue on elections so they aren’t overwhelmed. The bigger picture is different. News fatigue doesn’t mean Americans spend less time online or that people care less about their communities.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
Local and community-based media this year are strategically using print to build engagement around their election coverage. These election-focused flyers, postcards and print voter guides will add to the knowledge of how news organizations can deploy print to reach new audiences and deepen community ties. Examples this year build on others, such as using postcards to share explanatory and service journalism at THE CITY in New York City and inform solutions journalism at the Arizona Daily Star.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Samantha Ragland |Kevin Loker
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 how they shape and share the news and information their communities would use to make decisions up and down the ballot. And, importantly, we pushed newsrooms even then to think about how their election coverage might build toward deeper relationships after this November’s results are final.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Samantha Ragland
Posted Thursday, July 25, 2024 2:34 pm In April, the American Press Institute convened nearly 70 news leaders and experts from non-news spaces in Akron, Ohio, for our Local News Summit on Elections, Trust and Democracy.
