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: September 30, 2021
Readers may see ‘context’ as bias, merger forms large nonprofit news org in Chicago, and assess your ‘AI readiness’
Need to Know: September 29, 2021
How to get quality feedback, engaging local funders, and Gannett faces unfair labor practice charges
Need to Know: September 28, 2021
Learn strategies to retain subscribers, how to identify stakeholders for a story, and Axios’ lean approach to local news
Need to Know: September 27, 2021
News orgs plan to increase climate coverage, how one publisher is preparing for a post-cookie world, and public radio giving slows
Need to Know: September 24, 2021
Weekly roundup — how to retain subscribers, the one-story-a-day model, and relationship-building tactics
Need to Know: Sept. 23, 2021
Explain how and why you cover divisive topics, propaganda in the comment sections, and reader advisory panels
Need to Know: September 22, 2021
How the Post and Courier raised $1M for investigations, climate coverage lessons from Brazil, and asynchronous brainstorming
Need to Know: September 21, 2021
How a publisher succeeds with just one story a day, the future of print, and journalists leaving the industry
Need to Know: September 20, 2020
API’s Metrics for News team is hiring, how to do fewer stories but tell them better, and lessons from a year on Substack
Need to Know: September 17, 2021
Weekly roundup — new hires & funding at API, a $300M fund for local news, and many journalists can’t afford their student loans