Building Belonging, Brick by Brick: Advice for news leaders on supporting inclusive workplaces
American Press Institute,
Illustration by Luke Myers
This illustration by Luke Myers captures the top takeaways from the API Local News Summit on Fostering Belonging and Collaboration.The American Press Institute gathered more than 60 news leaders and experts to tackle the goals of fostering belonging and collaboration in news organizations at the API Local News Summit for Table Sakes Alumni.
Over two days, participants:
- Learned about building resiliency in themselves and their organizations
- Practiced frameworks to improve collaboration
- Explored how ideas from outside journalism spaces could help improve their workplaces
- Used LEGO Serious Play to unlock what belonging meant to them and the challenges they faced in building more inclusive cultures
This illustration by Luke Myers captures the top takeaways participants identified after their time together in Minneapolis in July 2024.
You can download a PDF version of the illustration here.
More from this summit:
- 12 ideas for fostering belonging and collaboration in local news organizations
- 5 frameworks to help improve collaboration in news organizations
- 8 ideas for managing generational tensions in your news organization
- What Gen Z journalists want news leaders to know
- How to build resilience for yourself and your news organization