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: April 5, 2021
How to rebound in 2021, journalists share mental health tips, and how investigative reporters organize info
Need to Know: April 2, 2021
Why some cities are incentivizing local newsletters, U.S. newspapers could step up their eEditions, and reads for your weekend
Need to Know: April 1, 2021
Steps to more inclusive reporting, how to promote a major story, and journalists should be free to leave abusive platforms
Need to Know: March 31, 2021
Why socioeconomic diversity matters in journalism, how to respond to critics, and how lawsuits are designed to chill reporting
Need to Know: March 30, 2021
Do journalists transfer too much power to Twitter, how to ask audiences for support, and how mass shooting coverage has changed
Need to Know: March 29, 2021
A new approach to editorial boards, why objectivity conventions are broken, and how news orgs deal (or don’t) with online harassment
Need to Know: March 26, 2021
How to grow a newsletter audience, what’s limiting attempts to stop disinformation, and a newsletter for and by journalists of color
Need to Know: March 25, 2021
Need to Know: How to earn a busy audience’s time, how power influences nonprofit newsrooms, and the national media’s negativity
Need to Know: March 24, 2021
Philanthropy as a ‘third revenue stream’ for news, how to address negative reader feedback, and print deadlines are getting earlier
Need to Know: March 23, 2021
Helping voters navigate elections, will the Supreme Court protect data journalism, and are public notices an endangered revenue stream