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 13, 2020
How to cover elections during a pandemic, show you are part of your community, and a third of Americans feel overwhelmed with news
Need to Know: May 12, 2020
Coronavirus data journalism tools, how to understand research studies, and smaller advertisers and ad buys might be better right now
Need to Know: May 11, 2020
Is your remote work sustainable, deciding which news organizations get government support, and mentoring new hires
Need to Know: May 8, 2020
Targeting a middle-age audience, how to report on solutions to big problems, and what to do with a summer of lost internships
Need to Know: May 7, 2020
New revenue success during COVID-19, help readers control news consumption, and half a digital ad's price is lost to middlemen
Need to Know: May 6, 2020
Where to seek grants, monetizing archives, and do journalists trust some sources too easily
Need to Know: May 5, 2020
Pressuring platforms for news revenue, the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, and offering readers something completely different as a diversion
Need to Know: May 4, 2020
How to ask for audience support, freelancers are not getting bailed out, and when and how to bring journalists back into newsrooms
Need to Know: April 30, 2020
Coaching your team through uncertain times, acquiring subs on Facebook is cheap now, and how the public feels about COVID-19 news
Need to Know: April 29, 2020
Pandemic gives rise to new products, prepare for #GivingNewsDay, and how to stop misinformation at its source