Need to Know newsletter
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: September 21, 2021
How a publisher succeeds with just one story a day, the future of print, and journalists leaving the industry
Need to Know: September 20, 2020
API’s Metrics for News team is hiring, how to do fewer stories but tell them better, and lessons from a year on Substack
Need to Know: September 17, 2021
Weekly roundup — new hires & funding at API, a $300M fund for local news, and many journalists can’t afford their student loans
Need to Know: Sept. 16, 2021
10 local news orgs get funding for reporting projects, lessons from source diversity audits, and how to visualize inequality
Need to Know: Sept. 15, 2021
Learn how two publishers keep subscribers, keeping local news locally owned, and remote jobs improve applicant pools
Need to Know: September 13, 2021
J-school grads struggle to pay down loans, ‘pay what you can’ news memberships, and better brainstorming meetings
Need to Know: September 10, 2021
Making newsrooms a better place to work, Facebook misinfo outstrips news, and a collaborative for Black media
Need to Know: September 9, 2021
How to tell stories for and with Black residents, covering vaccine hesitancy, and digital strategy for small publishers
Need to Know: September 8, 2021
What ‘fairness’ in news stories looks like, low-cost training on investigative techniques, and what a viral story says about media bias
Need to Know: September 7, 2021
Why we need to redesign journalism jobs, election misinfo attracted more clicks than real news, and a better way to collect emails