Kevin Loker
Kevin Loker serves as director of program operations and partnerships at the American Press Institute. His work focuses on two areas: facilitating research and events that strengthen API programs, and helping API collaborate with and advance the work of other organizations that want to improve journalism and its business.
At API, Kevin has served on research teams since its reinvention as an applied think tank. He’s contributed to over a dozen national studies on news audiences with the Media Insight Project, API’s joint research initiative with Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, as well as research into the ethics of philanthropic funding of journalism. He regularly assists with API’s Strategy Studies and led API efforts to study and spread practices on deep listening in news.
Events including API Thought Leader Summits are also part of his portfolio at API. Since 2013, Kevin has helped organize nearly a dozen invite-only summits on emerging challenges in journalism, such as mobile strategy and reader revenue.
Before API, Kevin worked in digital and membership services for the Online News Association. He is a former contributor to 10,000 Words, a media industry blog. Together with his wife Laura, he received a 2017 Catholic Press Association Award for an email newsletter for Catholics.