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API’s Need to Know email newsletter provides 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: December 7, 2022
Sending newspapers via postal delivery, API is hiring a web applications engineer, and whether The Twitter Files constitute journalism
Need to Know: December 6, 2022
Readers of climate news find it empowering, noncommercial radio stations excel at diversity, and Al Día plans to go national
Need to Know: API Year in Review
As 2022 comes to a close, API is reflecting on the work we’ve done this year to support newsrooms in connecting with their communities and navigating industry challenges.
Need to Know: December 2, 2022
Weekly roundup — Layoffs and strikes across the industry, the missing perspectives of women in news, and Wordle’s editor draws ire
Need to Know: December 1, 2022
Need to Know: Antitrust claims against Google, state censorship in China, and how the business side of local news is evolving
Need to Know: November 30, 2022
The challenges women face in news leadership and coverage, Instagramming reporters’ day-to-day activities, and media
Need to Know: November 29, 2022
Media calls for U.S. to drop charges against Julian Assange, spam on Twitter obscures Chinese protests, and newsrooms go hybrid
Need to Know: November 23, 2022
Newspaper subscriptions on the rise, The Athletic to double women’s sports coverage, and how to discuss ‘the media’ during the holidays
Need to Know: November 22, 2022
Serving Indigenous communities, using games to teach about politics, and the growing harassment of student reporters
Need to Know This Week: Identify opportunities to engage Gen Z and Millennial audiences
API, in partnership with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released a new report on how Gen Z and Millennial audiences engage with essential news topics, where they go to get information on those topics and how closely following those topics relates to other behavior such as paying for news. The study, […]