For the thousands of journalists who were trained by the American Press Institute, the merger last week with the NAA Foundation was a troubling sign for the future.

I went to API in Reston, Va., in the ‘80s to learn how to be a city editor. I still have a folder of material in my desk drawer from those sessions — partly because I’m a pack rat about such things, but mostly because they’re still valuable.

As you may be able to see in the photo above from the Washington Post story, the building being vacated was named for Donald W. Reynolds. The foundation’s endowment will go the Newspaper Association of America and training will continue.

It’s still sad to see a place that did such good work for 66 years is gone.