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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.
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Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Apple News’s human editors prefer a few major newsrooms (Columbia Journalism Review) But did you know: With a light jab at Facebook, Apple News launches a 2018 midterm elections section that’ll “steer clear of rumor and propaganda” (Nieman […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Twitter can be a hostile and dangerous place for women (New York Magazine) But did you know: A new study finds male political reporters retweet other men three times more often than their female colleagues (Vox) Anyone who follows […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The interiors of the detention centers where children are being kept from their parents are still largely out of public view because the government has gone to great lengths to keep the media at bay (CNNMoney) But […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Americans with high political awareness, those who are very digitally savvy and those who place high levels of trust in the news media are better able to accurately identify news-related statements as factual or opinion (Pew Research […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: There is not enough philanthropic dollars flowing into journalism to make up for the gaps in what has been lost from legacy newsrooms (The Shorenstein Center at Harvard and Northeastern University) But did you know: There is […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: 50 percent of the public say they are only a little familiar with the term “op‑ed,” or don’t know what it is But did you know: How are Americans doing at distinguishing between factual and opinion statements […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: In April 30 percent of The Denver Post staff was laid off and the newspaper’s hedge-fund owners interfered in the editorial process (CityLab) and Civil promises that you don’t have to care about blockchain to care about […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The influence of social media platforms and technology companies has had a greater effect on American journalism than even the shift from print to digital (The Tow Center) But did you know: Despite concerns about control, news […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Digital advertising revenue across all digital entities (beyond just news) continues to grow, with technology companies playing a large role in the flow of both news and revenue (Pew Research) But did you know: Print circulation, revenue […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: A former Senate Intelligence Committee aide was charged in a leak case where an NYT reporter’s records were seized and press advocates have bashed the US government’s seizure of years of email and phone data from NYT […]