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: July 29, 2021
Share emergency information on Instagram, how to involve people in a reporting series, and LinkedIn generates subscription leads
Need to Know: July 28, 2021
How to align crime coverage with mission, almost all online news orgs have newsletters, and journalism’s ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’
Need to Know: July 27, 2021
More news outlets return to local ownership, crowdsourcing investigative work, and white men no longer run most big U.S. newsrooms
Need to Know: July 26, 2021
Tips to secure philanthropic funding, why ‘slow news’ thrived during the pandemic, and journalists tell their stories on stage
Need to Know: Friday, July 23, 2021
Weekly roundup — the allure of advice columns, protecting journalists' privacy, and eye-opening weekend reads
Need to Know: July 22, 2021
A model for journalist-academic investigative partnerships, tips to increase sponsorships, and journalism students are filling news gaps
Need to Know: July 21, 2021
How to manage comments on crime coverage, helping readers fight misinformation, and can state and local governments rescue local news
Need to Know: July 20, 2021
How newsroom partnerships can serve new audiences, why advice columns create loyal readers, and Nieman Lab founder faces lawsuit
Need to Know: July 19, 2021
How a local paper started a Spanish-language section, spyware used to target journalists, and behind the scenes of the Epstein coverage
Need to Know: July 16, 2021
Weekly roundup — funding for government reporting, converting to nonprofit status, and the history of a white press and Black America