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: July 8, 2019
New email series on retaining diverse staff, how to connect with readers at events, and making global climate change into local news
Need to Know: July 3, 2019
Explain why you publish graphic images, covering the impact of the census, and the advantages of using comics for news
Need to Know: July 2, 2019
News job cuts are worst since 2009, tips for doing better ‘engaged journalism,’ and ways to reach a more diverse audience
Need to Know: July 1, 2019
What keeps subscribers coming back, using journalism to confront deep problems, and news personalization is getting better
Need to Know: June 28, 2019
How to add context on social media, how journalists view their audiences, and insightful reads for your weekend
Need to Know: June 27, 2019
A sports-only subscription captures out-of-market readers, minimizing harm from graphic images, and how to create a peer network
Need to Know: June 26, 2019
Create a newsroom handout, how to spot manipulated video, and behind the shakeup in the NYT Metro department
Need to Know: June 25, 2019
A Trust 101 class for journalists, how to be mobile-friendly, and common myths about online communities
Need to Know: June 24, 2019
Google will make it easier to bypass paywalls, the next evolution in fact-checking, and how to improve academic-newsroom partnerships
Need to Know: June 21, 2019
How to get the most out of Slack, a CRM for local news, and how librarians and journalists are teaming up