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: June 18, 2019
How to do long-term reporting projects, why ‘women’s issues’ don’t get covered, and why some people avoid the news
Need to Know: June 17, 2019
Can legislation help local news, Facebook will rate journalists’ credibility, and the problem with ‘electability’ analysis
Need to Know: June 14, 2019
How to cover the ‘citizens agenda’ in campaigns, how to create training resources that work, and Spotify adds news to playlists
Need to Know: June 13, 2019
Learn to use spreadsheets for reporting, what the Google-funded local news sites will do, and people read more clickbait than they admit
Need to Know: June 12, 2019
Use audience ‘sprints’ to grow subscriptions, combine all your engagement metrics, and external ‘public editors’ for major news orgs
Need to Know: June 11, 2019
Improve newsletters through user-level data, why 2020 is the podcast primary, and not naming mass shooters is the new norm
Need to Know: June 10, 2019
Google’s news-related revenue is $4.7 billion, how to get better at Instagram Stories, and news publishers take on Sunday-night TV
Need to Know: June 7, 2019
Promote diverse leaders on potential not experience, where online attention really goes, and how to plan for crowdsourcing
Need to Know: June 6, 2019
How newsletters drive revenue, storytelling lessons from Game of Thrones, and journalists who return to their hometowns
Need to Know: June 5, 2019
How to label opinion content clearly, create a ‘board’ of younger employees, and improving podcast discovery for the masses