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: Nov. 7, 2019
Look outside the field for diverse talent, a ‘tidal wave’ of fake news is coming, and people who pay for Netflix also pay for news
Need to Know: Nov. 6, 2019
How to map a local news ecosystem, explain where your opinion content comes from, and how to keep new subscribers engaged
Need to Know: Nov. 4, 2019
How to prepare for Election Day, fact-checkers push a plan for Facebook ads, and how ‘data voids’ spread misinformation
Need to Know: Nov. 1, 2019
The questions audiences have about your reporting, misinformation turns toward local news, and the significance of Deadspin’s collapse
Need to Know: Oct. 31, 2019
How to do opinion journalism better in a polarized age, some of your subscribers would pay more, and should you cover esports
Need to Know: Oct. 30, 2019
How to get out of a creative rut, how to build trust with disclosure statements, and can a courthouse ban all photography
Need to Know: Oct. 29, 2019
Replace your institutional voice with a personal one, how to cover the ‘arts’ beat for everyone, and how to help your readers help you
Need to Know: Oct. 28, 2019
Platforms paying publishers for news, embracing bilingual news, and adapting to the next major consumer privacy law
Need to Know: Oct. 25, 2019
Subscriber-only podcasts are coming, young audiences have ‘no patience’ for bad UX, and the toll of relentlessly chasing web traffic
Need to Know: Oct. 24, 2019
How Facebook’s news tab will work, improve retention with subscriber-only newsletters, and choosing community over scale