Reset key newsroom meetings with these tips from API staff
American Press Institute,New year, same old meetings. Meetings without a purpose. Meetings that don’t include the right people or that include too many people. Meetings that could have been an email. But what if it didn’t have to be that way?
As we kick off 2026, members of the American Press Institute team want to help you reset and rethink key meetings in your news organization.
Though research shows only about 50% of meeting time is effective and engaging, when meetings are done well, they have many positive benefits. Meetings are great settings for collaboration and can lead to better decision-making, more innovation and improved engagement, and they can even boost employee empowerment.
The series addresses four types of newsroom meetings and offers practical tips for how to improve them today: