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: January 4, 2021
Hedge fund Alden seeks to own Tribune, finding sustainability in memberships, and new rules for newsgathering by drone
Need to Know: December 23, 2020
Using grant funding to match ad spending, a new New Deal Writers’ Project, and how Google News drives readers away from local news
Need to Know: December 22, 2020
Top collaborative journalism projects of 2020, resurfacing content with service journalism, and fake news targets immigrants
Need to Know: December 21, 2020
Diversifying revenue during the pandemic, the dangers of the ‘podcasting gold rush,’ and more digital media acquisitions to come
Need to Know: December 18, 2020
How to rethink beats to become a watchdog newsroom, anti-vaxxers target local TV news, and a model for pop-up newsrooms
Need to Know: December 17, 2020
Change the crime beat, it’s been a good year for digital subscriptions, and learn about your ‘true believers’
Need to Know: December 16, 2020
Journalists need to address the conservative trust gap, a collective to launch local news orgs, and open-source content audit tools
Need to Know: December 15, 2020
Philanthropy is a key funding source for local news, 2020 was the year of nonprofit news, and how to build community partnerships
Need to Know: December 14, 2020
News outlets are making money from software, how local food writing is changing, and the ‘whisper culture’ in political journalism
Need to Know: December 11, 2020
Google is launching a global vaccine media hub, how soon could frontline journalists get vaccinated, and The Correspondent is closing