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: September 29, 2020
An algorithm that powers public service news, adding transparency to investigative pieces, and should debate moderators be fact-checkers
Need to Know: September 28, 2020
Taking care with hacked or leaked materials, the LA Times examines its role in systemic racism, and a new federal bill to save local news
Need to Know: September 25, 2020
What audience-centered pandemic coverage looks like, what is a ‘news desert’, and Twitter urges caution with retweets
Need to Know: September 24, 2020
Grow and diversify your audience through events, the economics of independent journalists, and obstacles to source diversity
Need to Know: September 23, 2020
Simple ways to build trust in your elections reporting, adding historical context to events, and a plan to diversify investigative teams
Need to Know: September 22, 2020
Election insights from the AP, a plan to rescue hedge fund-owned newspapers, and how to recognize AI-generated submissions
Need to Know: September 21, 2020
Thinking of diversity as community-building, a hotline for advice on race and gender coverage, and a Supreme Court reporter remembers RBG
Need to Know: September 18, 2020
Local news outlets expand territory, scholarships for ONA20, and TV investigative reports move to streaming services
Need to Know: September 17, 2020
How to build a membership program, beat reporting is changing during the pandemic, and meet the new Table Stakes coaches
Need to Know: September 15, 2020
How to win journalism grants, using threat modeling to guide election coverage, and who’s into ‘slow news’