I've been building News Creator Corps, a new nonprofit on a mission to make social platforms safer for all by investing in content creators and community messengers so they can better share facts, debunk misinformation, and empower their audiences with information. newscreatorcorps.org

What if local influencers aren’t TikTokers, but pastors, organizers, & neighbors? At @ampress.bsky.social , @samragland.bsky.social is helping newsrooms rethink influence & rebuild trust.
👉 projectc.beehiiv.com/p/pastors-not-tiktokers-redefining-local-influence

Yep, that is LEGO water and LEGO brick trees in the American Press Institute's newest local summit artifact: 🧱 "Building Belonging Brick by Brick."

📣 A note on influencer collaborations: We are not out to chase illusive virality. At the American Press Institute, we are most interested in this work to deepen community engagement practices and increase organizational capacity. americanpressinstitute.org/influencer-c...

Over the past year, a network of AI-generated local newsletters has quietly spread to 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S.

For @niemanlab.org, I dug into Good Daily's operations and learned how it gained a foothold in "small town America."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...

📣 In April, we’re packing up and heading to Nashville for our first API Local News Summit of the year on Local Identity, History and Sustainabily. 💃🏽

📝 Who do you know doing this critical, connective and energizing work? 👀👂

#APILocalSummits

americanpressinstitute.org/local-media-...

🤔 Who's doing community journalism right? Is engagement really sustainable? How does it help keep our doors open???

These questions prompted our director of community engagement @letrellcrittenden.bsky.social to write this case study on @publicsource.org.

americanpressinstitute.org/how-publicso...

If you’ve wondered where’s the joy in local journalism, I encourage you to seek out the joy-full and talented Hannah Wise. She’s the kind of “yes, and” newsie so many of us need in our newsrooms, but also in our lives.

Over here thinking about how grateful my laptop will be when it gets shut all the way down tomorrow. Tabs and all.

Here for this:

“Ultimately, whatever it looks like, a need and desire for new, fact-based information is still out there. The challenge now is to work out which of the old models for delivering it still work—and at what scale—and which need reimagining.”

For many, this report confirms what they already suspected.

👉 If collab'ing with trusted messengers is already part of your content strategy, Ariel Zirlunick and I would love to hear from you further to inform our API influencer partnerships' guide: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#APIguides

Me, just now realizing my toddler’s been turning the sound on his alarm clock off… no doubt bc 5 more minutes easily becomes 20 when Mommy doesn’t hear that life-giving, almost-bedtime “beeep beeep.”

EOY post to self (and maybe others): ☝️Tiny betrayals of purpose contribute to chronic stress which leads to burnout. ✌️Burnout has unique dimensions. 👉 Recommit to your purpose by setting boundaries, reducing access, basking in wins and treating rest as the human right that it is.