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: July 29, 2019
Doing fewer stories can create more engagement, how investigative reporting took down a governor, and is Facebook’s model broken
Need to Know: July 26, 2019
Journalists’ social media use is harming them, how WaPo’s tech lab will analyze elections, and telling the climate story through a game
Need to Know: July 25, 2019
Look past the ‘optics’ of Mueller testimony, news website traffic plateaus, and please explain why a source was not available
Need to Know: July 24, 2019
How to decide which ideas to pursue, do statewide investigations with partners, and the freelancer’s struggle to get paid
Need to Know: July 23, 2019
Letting journalists plan your events, advice columns are great for engagement, and keep your subscription options simple
Need to Know: July 22, 2019
How to develop products for audience needs, European lessons for engaged journalism, and what unpaid contributor models might support
Need to Know: July 19, 2019
GateHouse-Gannett merger talks, how necessary is your journalism, and can local news blossom again in Youngstown
Need to Know: July 18, 2019
How journalists can work with historians, can podcasts be listener-supported, and should journalists decide what is ‘racist’
Need to Know: July 17, 2019
How to get reader feedback every day, what worries young journalists, and why you should think more about the power of nostalgia
Need to Know: July 16, 2019
How to investigate on Facebook, how one state created funding for local news, and when discount subscriptions may backfire