Need to Know newsletter
API’s daily Need to Know morning newsletter provides fresh, useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism. Most of the items that we curate for the newsletter each day also appear here on the website as a cumulative body of knowledge.
Need to Know: September 21, 2020
Thinking of diversity as community-building, a hotline for advice on race and gender coverage, and a Supreme Court reporter remembers RBG
Need to Know: September 18, 2020
Local news outlets expand territory, scholarships for ONA20, and TV investigative reports move to streaming services
Need to Know: September 17, 2020
How to build a membership program, beat reporting is changing during the pandemic, and meet the new Table Stakes coaches
Need to Know: September 15, 2020
How to win journalism grants, using threat modeling to guide election coverage, and who’s into ‘slow news’
Need to Know: September 14, 2020
Apply for free fundraising training, bringing the ‘citizens’ agenda’ to a debate, and how sportswriters are doing their jobs from afar
Need to Know: September 11, 2020
Diversify audiences through partnerships, modernizing public-notice ads, and how to find new readers in Facebook groups
Need to Know: September 10, 2020
Assess your subscriber retention practices, funding for news about voting, and daily ways you can improve diversity
Need to Know: September 9, 2020
Create an FAQ about your elections coverage, tips to avoid polarizing audiences, and news orgs aren’t blaming climate change
Need to Know: September 8, 2020
Engaging immigrant audiences on WhatsApp, QAnon is a ‘collective delusion,’ and The Courier Journal reflects on its protest coverage
Need to Know: September 4, 2020
Voters’ roundtable shapes local coverage, saying ‘without evidence’ isn’t good enough, and unexpected funders can help local news