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Need to Know: December 2, 2022
Weekly roundup — Layoffs and strikes across the industry, the missing perspectives of women in news, and Wordle’s editor draws ire
Need to Know: December 1, 2022
Need to Know: Antitrust claims against Google, state censorship in China, and how the business side of local news is evolving
Need to Know: November 30, 2022
The challenges women face in news leadership and coverage, Instagramming reporters’ day-to-day activities, and media
Need to Know: November 29, 2022
Media calls for U.S. to drop charges against Julian Assange, spam on Twitter obscures Chinese protests, and newsrooms go hybrid
Need to Know: November 23, 2022
Newspaper subscriptions on the rise, The Athletic to double women’s sports coverage, and how to discuss ‘the media’ during the holidays
Need to Know: November 22, 2022
Serving Indigenous communities, using games to teach about politics, and the growing harassment of student reporters
Need to Know This Week: Identify opportunities to engage Gen Z and Millennial audiences
API, in partnership with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released a new report on how Gen Z and Millennial audiences engage with essential news topics, where they go to get information on those topics and how closely following those topics relates to other behavior such as paying for news. The study, […]
Need to Know: November 18, 2022
Weekly roundup — How Gen Z and Millennials engage with news topics, media outlets brace for a recession, and what’s next for BuzzFeed
Need to Know: November 17, 2022
Misinformation about Iran goes viral, Facebook stops checking Trump, and how young people get essential news
Need to Know: November 16, 2022
Covering Trump in 2024, the Washington Post experiments with reader access, and Signal Cleveland launches with $7.5m funding