Need to Know newsletter
API’s Need to Know email newsletter provides fresh, useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism.
The daily edition arrives in inboxes every weekday morning, and helps subscribers stay up to date in this fast-moving industry. It features relevant news as well as bright ideas, insights and conversations that are happening across the field of journalism.
The weekly edition arrives in inboxes every Friday morning. It quickly summarizes the biggest industry news as well as some of the most interesting ideas and advice that have emerged during the week.
*The email that is sent on Fridays is the same for both daily and weekly subscribers.
Need to Know: August 5, 2022
Weekly roundup — A strike at Reuters, media companies’ quarterly results, and a potential new model for news ownership
Need to Know: August 4, 2022
The evolution of newsletters, helping survivors deal with media attention, and the fight for Facebook ad data
Need to Know: August 3, 2022
API launches fund to support election coverage, attempts to fill the local news void, and an editor who can’t find her replacement
Need to Know: August 2, 2022
A new problem for The Aspen Times, avoiding a ‘number soup,’ and a failed union organizing effort
Need to Know: August 1, 2022
A Packers-style model for journalism, building coalitions across communities, and the evolution of the Murdoch-Trump relationship
Need to Know: July 29, 2022
Weekly roundup — Meta cuts funding for publishers, nonprofit news continues to grow, and API launches Beyond Print program
Need to Know: July 28, 2022
The daily/weekly distinction fades, how to build a solutions journalism beat, and whether journalists should be on TikTok
Need to Know: July 27, 2022
Nonprofit news shows staying power, API’s new Beyond Print program, and how to use audio clips to explain the reporting process
Need to Know: July 26, 2022
AP looks back at Tuskegee, trying audio in Twitter Spaces, and a Colorado monthly goes nonprofit
Need to Know: July 25, 2022
The danger of bothsidesism in climate coverage, more inclusive edit tests, and why journalists must work together to protect democracy