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: January 15, 2021
A vaccine education toolkit for reporters, readers want ad-supported free newsletters, and why to eschew social media marketing
Need to Know: January 14, 2021
How to choose subscriber-exclusive stories, prepare for online harassment, and can local investors rescue local news
Need to Know: January 13, 2021
Use caution with the label ‘Trump supporter,’ the ‘artificial ceiling’ for digital journalists, and how to explain audience engagement
Need to Know: January 12, 2021
Use Slack to let people speak up about insensitive coverage, how to track source demographics, and the growth of mob thinking
Need to Know: January 11, 2021
It’s not about misinformation anymore, the failure to cover white nationalism, and a membership model for local TV news
Need to Know: January 8, 2021
Tips to support peace in reporting on unrest, how to demonstrate credibility, and a streamlined unpublishing process
Need to Know: January 6, 2021
The best business models for community news orgs, understand how your journalism is perceived, and when to ignore misinformation
Need to Know: January 5, 2021
Overburdened USPS threatens small-town papers, putting a name to editorials, and how local news is covering election fallout
Need to Know: January 4, 2021
Hedge fund Alden seeks to own Tribune, finding sustainability in memberships, and new rules for newsgathering by drone
Need to Know: December 23, 2020
Using grant funding to match ad spending, a new New Deal Writers’ Project, and how Google News drives readers away from local news