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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.
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Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: A report from the Knight Foundation published earlier this month suggests local TV news is “doing way better than you’d think” (Nieman Lab): “No other existing news medium appears to have more advantages right now than local […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The Denver Post is taking a stand against its hedge fund ownership, and published a series of editorials that make the case for its own survival (New York Times) But did you know: While most newspaper owners […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Michael Ferro announced he was “retiring” as chairman of Tronc last month after he was accused of sexual harassment (Los Angeles Times) But did you know: Michael Ferro sold his entire stake in Tronc, selling his 9 […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Lewis D’Vorkin was editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times for a brief three months, and was replaced by Jim Kirk in January after saying that someone at the Times was “morally bankrupt” (Los Angeles Times) […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The Los Angeles Times newsroom unionized in January, “reversing more than a century of anti-union sentiment” at the paper (New York Times) But did you know: Data from the L.A. Times Guild shows that Tronc is underpaying […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Mark Zuckerberg began his Congressional testimony on Tuesday, answering questions about Facebook’s terms of service, how app developers access people’s information, and how and why Facebook stores data (Wired); In the second day of his testimony, expect […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Twitter is cracking down on bots, and purged thousands of bots from its platform earlier this year (Daily Beast) But did you know: Two-thirds of tweets linking to stories come from bots rather than humans (Pew Research […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Last month, The Denver Post announced that its newsroom would be cut by about one-third (Denver Post); A lawsuit filed by one of Digital First Media’s minority shareholders claims that owner Alden Global Capital siphoned millions of […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The percentage of Americans who gets news from TV is decreasing and those who do get news there are older (Pew Research) But did you know: Local TV is doing way better than you’d think, a new […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87 million people, mostly in the US, and it will begin alerting those users that their data may have been part of this batch on […]