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: Sept. 10, 2019
Ideas for local podcasting, social platforms at risk for 2020 disinformation, and when journalism students investigate their own school
Need to Know: Sept. 9, 2019
How people want journalists to use social media, public-service story ideas, and be careful about thinking of audience categories
Need to Know: Sept. 6, 2019
How ‘source hacking’ feeds misinfo to journalists, making evergreen lists, and it’s been two years since the ‘S****y Media Men’ list
Need to Know: Sept. 5, 2019
Newspapers lead in local news production, how journalists and technologists collaborate and safety risks for female journalists
Need to Know: September 4, 2019
Lessons from community organizers, when to correct other journalists’ mistakes, and can social networks take down ‘provably false’ info
Need to Know: September 3, 2019
Young readers say news feels ‘like a chore,’ registering all users is becoming essential and news publishers unite against platforms
Need to Know: August 30, 2019
Closing the gap in leadership skills, how to build trust on social media, and why bias shouldn’t be a dirty word
Need to Know: August 29, 2019
How to make members part of your journalism, how photojournalism can inspire solutions, and how to keep the obit revenue stream alive
Need to Know: August 28, 2019
Use your social media profile to build trust, niche publishers now dominate Capitol coverage, and an AI that generates fake news
Need to Know: August 27, 2019
How to cut print and keep revenue, replace Facebook with push notifications, and ways to use data for local news