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 15, 2021
Apply for funding for government reporting, every reporter is a climate reporter, and how to create a streaming newscast
Need to Know: July 14, 2021
How to cover conflict without worsening it, how — and if — news orgs will return to the office, and boards are becoming more diverse
Need to Know: July 13, 2021
How journalists at small newspapers fared in 2020, should newsrooms ignore political stunts, and non-compete clauses could go away
Need to Know: July 12, 2021
How to transition to a nonprofit news model, USPS will raise mailing rates, and how the white press wrote off Black America
Need to Know: July 9, 2021
Weekly roundup — local funding for local news, adapting big stories for social media, and new ideas to absorb this weekend
Need to Know: July 8, 2021
Where journalism funding is coming from, a new version of Google Analytics is coming, and how to reconnect with disinvested audiences
Need to Know: July 7, 2021
Take steps to reinvent crime coverage, how to address ‘return-to-office’ anxiety, and an Amazon Prime approach to subscriptions
Need to Know: July 6, 2021
How to make reporting more digestible, longstanding libel ruling could change, and 2020 election misinformation persists online
Need to Know: July 1, 2021
The new wave of UFO reporting, Americans agree the news is ‘fundamentally untrustworthy,’ and how the LA Times made virtual events fun
Need to Know: June 30, 2021
Newspaper circulation revenue beats ad revenue, get help with local government reporting, and what transparent reporting looks like