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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.
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: FactStream debuted live fact-checking with the January 2018 State of the Union (Nieman Lab) But did you know: What early experiments in live fact-checking have taught us (Nieman Lab) A recent experiment in live fact-checking, in which participants watched […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: In many smaller markets, it’s local TV stations’ websites — not newspapers’ sites — that are the dominant digital local news source (Nieman Lab) But did you know: To improve local TV news, ABC’s stations are betting on a […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Twitter is sweeping out fake accounts like never before, putting user growth at risk (The Washington Post) But did you know: New study finds that bots significantly amplified misinformation during the 2016 U.S. election (Poynter) Since the 2016 American […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination (The Washington Post) But did you know: President Trump says U.S. stands by Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi murder (Axios) President Trump said in a statement Tuesday that the […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: In 2017, U.S. sets new record for censoring, withholding government files (AP) But did you know: The sorry state of FOIA — ‘a wheezing, arthritic artifact of more optimistic times’ (Reason) When the Freedom of Information Act was […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The newspaper industry generates an estimated $18 billion to 20 billion in annual revenue today, down from about $55 billion at its height (Nieman Lab) But did you know: New business models no longer rely on large profits […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Voice assistants have been adopted faster than nearly any other technology in history (Recode) But did you know: How publishers are beginning to use smart speakers to deliver the news (Reuters Institute) At least a tenth of both the […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Spending too much time on Twitter may worsen journalists’ news judgment (Columbia Journalism Review) But did you know: Partisanship of journalists’ Twitter networks tends to show in their work (Journalist’s Resource) There’s a clear link between the accounts […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring reporter Jim Acosta (CNN) But did you know: The CNN lawsuit isn’t just about Jim Acosta’s White House badge (The Hollywood Reporter) CNN’s Jim Acosta may or may […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: In the run-up to the midterms, President Trump had fact-checkers “gasping for air” (The Washington Post) But did you know: During the midterm elections, local fact-checking was scant (Poynter) Very little of the fact-checking done in the lead-up to […]