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: May 30, 2019
How to fund local news through donations, why women are underrepresented in photojournalism, and why working long hours doesn’t work
Need to Know: May 29, 2019
Why local reporters need local ties, what a ‘membership editor’ does, and an artificial intelligence that reduces subscriber churn
Need to Know: May 28, 2019
Reserving comments for subscribers, how to set goals that don’t leave you miserable and how Russian journalists persevere
Need to Know: May 24, 2019
How to let spreadsheets do your math, covering climate day-to-day and new models for rural journalism
Need to Know: May 23, 2019
How one newsletter drove 2,000 subscriptions, simple ways to build trust, and dealing with PIOs who obstruct your work
Need to Know: May 22, 2019
Share your ‘why’ with readers to inspire loyalty, tips for audience dev teams, and ideas for covering the 40+ presidential candidates
Need to Know: May 21, 2019
How to make work meaningful, the misinformation campaign of 2020, and apply now for our community-listening program
Need to Know: May 20, 2019
The ‘Thrones bump’ for media comes to an end, change the terms used in climate reporting, and how to properly mourn a lost job
Need to Know: May 17, 2019
Reaching younger audiences through Instagram, search warrant raids on journalists, and take another look at comments sections
Need to Know: May 16, 2019
Earn trust through personal interactions, gender equality in sourcing, and how to get a clear vision of your target audience