Sam Ragland (she/her)
@samragland.bsky.social
VP, Journalism Programs at @ampress working toward a healthy news world for all journalists 💥🤌 | Former PBPost editor & Poynter faculty | amateur flower arranger 💐 | Need support? 📆 calendly.com/sragland/30
🤔 Consider, then: How might you add a brick of belonging to your news organization's community — not just the external folks you serve but the internal ones, too?
Find more ideas and resources here: betternews.org/12-ideas-for...
Find more ideas and resources here: betternews.org/12-ideas-for...
12 ideas for fostering belonging in local news organizations
Here are 12 ideas to steal and adapt at your news organizations, from experts outside of journalism spaces.
betternews.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🤔 Consider, then: How might you add a brick of belonging to your news organization's community — not just the external folks you serve but the internal ones, too?
Find more ideas and resources here: betternews.org/12-ideas-for...
Find more ideas and resources here: betternews.org/12-ideas-for...
🏁 For news organizations aiming to build belonging, even when it requires dismantling otherness, isolation and, yes, the status quo, these zoom-ins are a good place to start:
💖 Make Care
🌉 Connect + Collaborate
🌱 Prune, then Plant
🤝🏽 Share skills
🚧 Update your systems
💖 Make Care
🌉 Connect + Collaborate
🌱 Prune, then Plant
🤝🏽 Share skills
🚧 Update your systems
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🏁 For news organizations aiming to build belonging, even when it requires dismantling otherness, isolation and, yes, the status quo, these zoom-ins are a good place to start:
💖 Make Care
🌉 Connect + Collaborate
🌱 Prune, then Plant
🤝🏽 Share skills
🚧 Update your systems
💖 Make Care
🌉 Connect + Collaborate
🌱 Prune, then Plant
🤝🏽 Share skills
🚧 Update your systems
👓 What you see is a thriving neighborhood. Each member contributes to the collective belonging and membership of others. Take it in and note the bottom squares, or "zoom-ins."
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
👓 What you see is a thriving neighborhood. Each member contributes to the collective belonging and membership of others. Take it in and note the bottom squares, or "zoom-ins."
Hugs and h/ts to the cohort for learning out loud: PublicSource, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, THE CITY (newsroom), WSOC-TV Eyewitness News, Factchequeado and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service 🤗
And a special s/o to Scott Klein and the team at the Knight Election Hub for powering this work.
And a special s/o to Scott Klein and the team at the Knight Election Hub for powering this work.
January 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hugs and h/ts to the cohort for learning out loud: PublicSource, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, THE CITY (newsroom), WSOC-TV Eyewitness News, Factchequeado and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service 🤗
And a special s/o to Scott Klein and the team at the Knight Election Hub for powering this work.
And a special s/o to Scott Klein and the team at the Knight Election Hub for powering this work.
Grab some ideas to steal here: americanpressinstitute.org/22-ideas-to-...
22 ideas to steal from the API Influencer Learning Cohort
After four months of learning and experiments, our American Press Institute and Knight Election Hub cohort on influencer collaborations has concluded. Here's what we learned.
americanpressinstitute.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Grab some ideas to steal here: americanpressinstitute.org/22-ideas-to-...
🥇 Influencers are still beholden to the algorithm
🥈 Not all influencers see themselves as such
🥉 Influencers value thought partnership
Read more here: americanpressinstitute.org/influencer-c...
🥈 Not all influencers see themselves as such
🥉 Influencers value thought partnership
Read more here: americanpressinstitute.org/influencer-c...
Influencer collaborations: Lessons from four months of local news experiments - American Press Institute
“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, insight...
americanpressinstitute.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🥇 Influencers are still beholden to the algorithm
🥈 Not all influencers see themselves as such
🥉 Influencers value thought partnership
Read more here: americanpressinstitute.org/influencer-c...
🥈 Not all influencers see themselves as such
🥉 Influencers value thought partnership
Read more here: americanpressinstitute.org/influencer-c...
As you consider how these trusted messenger or influencer collaborations may support your journalism, we hope you start where our learning cohort ended. Here are 3 big lessons after four months of experimenting with non-partisan influencer collabs:
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
As you consider how these trusted messenger or influencer collaborations may support your journalism, we hope you start where our learning cohort ended. Here are 3 big lessons after four months of experimenting with non-partisan influencer collabs:
👉🏽 This is why we often use “trusted messenger” instead — to encourage an extension beyond the confines of a social feed and follower count and into our real lives and neighborhoods.
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
👉🏽 This is why we often use “trusted messenger” instead — to encourage an extension beyond the confines of a social feed and follower count and into our real lives and neighborhoods.
I love your career journey! And my favorite part: when you scooped me up for the ride 🤓
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media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I love your career journey! And my favorite part: when you scooped me up for the ride 🤓