The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Letrell Deshan Crittenden will join our team as Director of Inclusion and Audience Growth on Monday, Sept. 20. Dr. Crittenden joins API from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he was program director and assistant professor of communication. He specializes in issues related to diversity and […]

J-school grads struggle to pay down loans, ‘pay what you can’ news memberships, and better brainstorming meetings

Making newsrooms a better place to work, Facebook misinfo outstrips news, and a collaborative for Black media

How to tell stories for and with Black residents, covering vaccine hesitancy, and digital strategy for small publishers

What ‘fairness’ in news stories looks like, low-cost training on investigative techniques, and what a viral story says about media bias

Why we need to redesign journalism jobs, election misinfo attracted more clicks than real news, and a better way to collect emails

If you’re now persuaded to jump into a work redesign, get ready to start with what Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer calls “an almost anthropological” study of what people do, hour by hour, day by day. A redesign may usher in some unfamiliar ways of doing journalism, but failing to adapt can mean “you’re going to […]

Can work design be applied in newsrooms? Don’t bother making the argument that the media industry is “different.” The experts disagree with you. “If you’ve basically said ‘I can’t do anything differently because we’re different,’” said Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, “you have defined your problem as unsolvable…and that whatever problem has presented itself is going […]

“An organization that goes through massive transitions faces the question of what are the things that we want to hold on to? And what are the things that we want to let go of? Where do we see an opportunity to bring in something different and better? … We ask ourselves, what must be rebuilt, […]

Worker stress in the journalism industry has existed for so many decades that journalists sometimes seem resigned to a life of impending burnout. Back in 2004, University of Central Florida professor Fred Fedler researched the history of stress in journalism, saying it was important so that “beginners who understand the [stress] problem at the start […]