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: October 30, 2020
Smarter paywalls for everyone, apply ‘systems thinking’ to your investigations, and why news deserts become democracy deserts
Need to Know: October 29, 2020
News outlets are misinformation superspreaders, few U.S. adults blame journalists for bias, and tearing down ad and subscriptions siloes
Need to Know: October 28, 2020
Another government plan to save local news, engaging sports fans on social media, and reporting in graphic-novel form
Need to Know: October 27, 2020
Are journalists too focused on foreign influence, a reporting recipe for political ad targeting, and a COVID-19 data partnership
Need to Know: October 26, 2020
Prepare to cover likely voting scenarios, media mistakes after four years of Trump, and Votebeat’s future plans
Need to Know: October 23, 2020
How to demonstrate credibility, takeaways from election conversations with the AP, and newspapers aren’t protecting their statehouse beats
Need to Know: October 21, 2020
Newsroom hotline connects readers with information, a news app that builds reading habits, and how to explain endorsements
Need to Know: October 20, 2020
SacBee journalists fight pay-for-clicks proposal, local media attracts national advertisers, and a ‘day of action’ for public media diversity
Need to Know: October 19, 2020
Slack-inspired ‘reporter’s notebook’ shares election insights, Twitter’s hacked materials policy, and COVID-19 fuels digital repression
Need to Know: October 16, 2020
Going beyond information needs, entrepreneurial journalists fight hedge funds, and pop-up newsletters capture the moment