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 17, 2020
How to move major events online, expect some subscribers to be less engaged than others, and what might ‘media reparations’ look like
Need to Know: July 16, 2020
How to label opinion content clearly, pandemic accelerates radio’s shift to digital, and how Slack fuels journalists’ reform efforts
Need to Know: July 15, 2020
Free analytics insights for your elections coverage, new help with raising philanthropic support, and how two news orgs can collaborate
Need to Know: July 14, 2020
How to support journalists of color, reporter sues police over arrest, and activists are making fake local news sites
Need to Know: July 13, 2020
Hedge fund wins McClatchy auction, how to measure Instagram engagement, and the media startups choosing to launch in hard times
Need to Know: July 10, 2020
How news startups find their way, digital replicas of print editions can build habits, and the power of saying 'thank you'
Need to Know: July 9, 2020
A more woman-friendly newsroom, unmask sources of disinformation, and protecting journalists from harassment
Need to Know: July 8, 2020
Prying COVID-19 data from the government, engagement tactics for coronavirus coverage, and prominent writers call for ‘open debate’
Need to Know: July 7, 2020
How to cover ‘defund the police’, can a news org quit Facebook, and announcing the newest Table Stakes cohort
Need to Know: July 6, 2020
Where people are getting COVID-19 news, fighting police subpoenas, and what journalists of color are going through now