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API’s Need to Know email newsletter provides fresh, useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism.
The daily edition arrives in inboxes every weekday morning, and helps subscribers stay up to date in this fast-moving industry. It features relevant news as well as bright ideas, insights and conversations that are happening across the field of journalism.
The weekly edition arrives in inboxes every Friday morning. It quickly summarizes the biggest industry news as well as some of the most interesting ideas and advice that have emerged during the week.
*The email that is sent on Fridays is the same for both daily and weekly subscribers.
Need to Know: October 13, 2021
The case for fewer newsletters, new owners revive small Gannett papers, and the New York Times wants its own audio app
Need to Know: October 12, 2021
The Atlantic’s new model for newsletters, how to practice ‘deep listening,' and a network for climate journalists
Need to Know: October 11, 2021
How the Tampa Bay Times raised donations for reporters, how freelancers tackle big stories, and tools to track journalism’s impact
Need to Know: October 8, 2021
Weekly roundup — Try a community editorial board, why Black media matters now, and how news collaboratives are funded
Need to Know: Oct. 7, 2021
How NOLA.com got 19k subscriptions by texting hurricane news, why Black media matters, and structures to preserve local ownership
Need to Know: October 6, 2021
A new system to handle donations, how to track impact of reporting, and ask your critics ‘how can we be better?’
Need to Know: October 5, 2021
What a community editorial board does, inside the Tennessean’s ‘Black Voices’ project, and is Facebook in decline
Need to Know: October 4, 2021
Tips for journalists on using data, explain how you cover local elections, and how a nonprofit news outlet struggles to pay interns
Need to Know: October 1, 2021
Weekly roundup — how to understand your audience, new ways to cover climate change, and how Axios local newsletters work
Need to Know: September 30, 2021
Readers may see ‘context’ as bias, merger forms large nonprofit news org in Chicago, and assess your ‘AI readiness’