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Better News revisits the best stories of 2023

Kamaria Roberts, the deputy director of local news transformation at the American Press Institute, highlights the work API has done over the last year through its Better News Initiative and what may be in store for 2024.

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568. Documenters boost Resolve Philly’s coverage of important local meetings

Julie Christie, director of data and special projects at Resolve Philly, discusses how her newsroom partnered with Chicago’s City Bureau Documenters Network to recruit, train and pay Philadelphians to attend and take notes at public meetings across the city.

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566. Local news viewed through a postindustrial lens

Carmen Gentile, founder and editor at large of Postindustrial, explains how the independent, journalism-first, multimedia news outlet covers the areas in the United States that were once deemed highly industrialized. While some communities continue to struggles, others are finding new ways to thrive.

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Better News: Building trust with rural communities

The American Press Institute recently hosted a panel discussion with alumni from the Tables Stakes Local News Transformation Program about how journalists can build trust with rural communities.

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383. Public good vs private enterprise: sustainability in local news

Should readers pay for local news as a private enterprise or should local news be subsidized with government funding? News sustainability experts pondered this question Monday during a policy discussion at Gallup World Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The event was timed to coincide with the release of a new report from Gallup and the Knight…

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