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: November 23, 2020
News outlets invest in service journalism, when to avoid anonymous sources, and why programmers are in demand in newsrooms
Need to Know: November 20, 2020
What sustainable news orgs have in common, how to find diverse sources, and how newspaper ads spread lies
Need to Know: November 19, 2020
Subscription success centered on newsletters, the national outlets entering local news, and misinformation’s hold on GOP partisans
Need to Know: November 18, 2020
Audiences are turning away from COVID-19 coverage, how comics journalism fights news fatigue, and API welcomes two new board members
Need to Know: November 17, 2020
Explain how you investigate claims of voter fraud, helping audiences tell their own stories, and who are the ‘Substackerati’
Need to Know: November 16, 2020
How to cover crises on Twitter, post-voting stories you should be covering, and why the United States’ political divide is exceptional
Need to Know: November 13, 2020
Fact-checking election misinformation isn’t enough, elections don’t have to be a seasonal beat, and how to humanize housing coverage
Need to Know: November 12, 2020
It’s time to rebuild local newsrooms, paywalls are tightening, and how a timeline of COVID news led to many subscriptions
Need to Know: November 11, 2020
The case for investing in service journalism, rethinking obits, and a new crop of for-profit local news networks
Need to Know: November 10, 2020
Demystify the electoral process, API and REJ to form Listening & Sustainability Lab, and why email newsletters keep subscribers