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: March 5, 2021
Pooled funds could help finance local news, is engagement just a gateway to harassment, and making public information more public
Need to Know: March 4, 2021
We are hiring a Director of Inclusion & Audience Growth, the growth of philanthropy in local news, and how to assess a news ecosystem
Need to Know: March 3, 2021
How to incorporate engagement into daily work, documenting local news outside the coasts, and the first newspaper-liquor store combo
Need to Know: March 2, 2021
Half of digital subscribers are ‘zombies,’ how some alt-weeklies have survived COVID-19, and how to translate vaccine reporting
Need to Know: March 1, 2021
How to pitch an audience engagement project, Marty Baron’s parting advice for democracy, and the effects of a ‘megapublisher’
Need to Know: February 26, 2021
A first step to regaining conservatives’ trust in news, one place to access public records, and supporting grassroots community news
Need to Know: February 25, 2021
How to revive your unengaged subscribers, investing in America’s Black press, and can a news org leave Facebook and be just fine
Need to Know: February 24, 2021
Explain why you protect people’s privacy in stories, how to do a source diversity audit, and nonprofit news grew in 2020
Need to Know: February 23, 2021
How callouts close audience feedback loops, most Americans say they saw made-up news in 2020, and Facebook reverses Australian news ban
Need to Know: February 22, 2021
How alumni can support student newspapers, a day in the life of an ‘audience journalist,’ and Canada will ask Facebook to pay for news