API is a place for sharing: sharing of ideas, of experiences, of the most successful strategies and operating techniques from the best news companies in the world. At the heart of this process are hundreds of women and men -- an experienced, talented collection of media professionals, management consultants, executives and academics. They volunteer their time and talents for the benefit of those dedicated to the business of news.
Recruited to spend from 90 minutes to a full day with seminar members, these guest experts spend dozens of hours preparing, in many cases surveying members in advance to determine their primary job-related concerns and needs so that working sessions can be tailored carefully to address member interests. It's the skillful and, at times, passionate energies brought to API each year by its hundreds of discussion leaders that make the API Experience the success that it is. The primary role of any API discussion leader is not to lecture, but rather to involve the membership in active, energetic and productive discussion. An API discussion leader’s hours are long and the honorarium is modest.
Wanted: Desire, Passion and Energy
If you have the desire to share new ideas and learned wisdom, the passion for the people and the process of the news industry, and the energy and platform skills to guide and drive candid discussion of important issues, you have what it takes to be an API discussion leader.
If there’s something you’d like to bring to the discussions at API, please send an e-mail with your ideas to:
Carol Ann Riordan
Interim Executive Director