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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.
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Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The New York Times took the rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed by a senior Trump administration official, which claims many in the administration are “thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses” (The New York Times) But did […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms (Nieman Lab) But did you know: Facebook’s private groups offer refuge to fringe figures (The New York Times) Facebook’s fight against disinformation and hate speech will […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Trump’s tariffs on Canadian newsprint are overturned (The New York Times) But did you know: The tariffs are gone, but the burden of print weighs heavier and heavier (Nieman Lab) The decision to eliminate newsprint tariffs, announced Wednesday by […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Some publishers stopped their Facebook ad spending over policy that treated publishers as political advertisers (Digiday) But did you know: Twitter will exempt news organizations from its issue ads policy (Axios) Twitter says news organizations can apply to be […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: How a tariff on Canadian newsprint is threatening American newspapers (The Washington Post) But did you know: The United States International Trade Commission voted Wednesday to eliminate the newsprint tariff (The New York Times) The United States International Trade […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: President Trump accuses Google of burying conservative news in search results (The New York Times) But did you know: Trump’s claim is based on a study that is ‘not scientific’ (The Washington Post) Trump is most likely repeating a […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: As newspapers cut, grassroots solutions fuel a resurgence of local journalism (Poynter) But did you know: In what could be a first for local newspapers, a Sonoma County weekly is turning readers into shareholders (The New York Times) Last […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: News source ratings can help readers assess credibility of online news, particularly when journalists were known to have devised the ratings, study finds (Knight Foundation) But did you know: A new browser plug-in called NewsGuard gives trustworthiness ratings to […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Traffic from Google Search to publisher sites globally has risen by more than 25% (Chartbeat) But did you know: New study shows that only a third of publishers are seeing an increase in traffic from Google AMP (Digiday) In […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Americans are skeptical of “the news media” in the abstract, but generally trust the news they rely on But did you know: Trust in news is up, especially for local media (Poynter) After decades of declining trust in the […]