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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 18, 2021
Twitter tests way to report misinformation, will more people pay for opinion newsletters, and how to make news less polarizing
Need to Know: August 17, 2021
How local journalists responded to the UK shooting, making virtual events compelling, and a framework for teaching solutions journalism
Need to Know: August 16, 2021
How conservatives feel about local news, join other journalists on the ‘road to pluralism,’ and NPR launches source tracking tool
Need to Know: August 13, 2021
Weekly roundup — How to revive your homepage, NYT introduces more subscriber-only newsletters, and weekend reads
Need to Know: August 12, 2021
How to stop doing things that aren’t working, newsletters for subscribers only, and sustaining climate coverage
Need to Know: August 11, 2021
Explain the life cycle of a news story, how to grow individual giving, and can ‘citizen influencers’ boost vaccine rates
Need to Know: August 10, 2021
Gannett is changing its crime coverage, what a new lawsuit could mean for women journalists, and Covid coverage isn’t changing behavior
Need to Know: August 9, 2021
How to pursue drone footage, covering COVID with automated news, and tailoring audience ‘listening tours’
Need to Know: August 6, 2021
Weekly roundup — how local news orgs spread vaccine misinfo, how to be accessible on social media, and weekend reads
Need to Know: August 5, 2021
Apply for funding for government reporting, what community-centered journalism looks like, and blind trust is as bad as mistrust