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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: Up to 73% of news jobs today are in the so-called “media bubbles” (Politico) But did you know: The Guardian is working with reporters from around America to cover class and inequality (The Guardian) Media’s “bubble” problem became […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: CNN deleted a story linking Trump and Russia, then issued a retraction after questions were raised (BuzzFeed) But did you know: CNN is imposing strict new rules on its Russia coverage (BuzzFeed) CNN is imposing strict new publishing […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Conservative coal mogul Robert Murray is suing HBO, Time Warner and the writers of Last Week Tonight over John Oliver’s recent segment on miner safety (Daily Beast) But did you know: Another civil case from Murray Energy in […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: WSJ fired its chief foreign affairs correspondent on Wednesday for ties to the business dealings of one of his sources (Associated Press) But did you know: Jay Solomon was offered a 10 percent stake in a company […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Longtime McClatchy CEO Pat Talamantes was let go in January, and Craig Forman was named CEO (Sacramento Business Journal); Forman has emphasized ramping up McClatchy’s digital efforts: “My goal here is collaborating in accelerating that transformation. … […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Facebook is trying to compete with YouTube by creating longer, TV-quality videos through partnerships with companies including BuzzFeed and Vox Media (Fortune) But did you know: Facebook’s plan to build a library of TV-quality video is being […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Basic analytics are coming to Apple’s podcasting platform, offering data on what parts of an episode people listen to and when they stop listening (Recode) But did you know: The audience for online radio and podcast is […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: On Thursday, Facebook published a list of questions it’s grappling with around censorship and terrorism, asking users to send in their thoughts on these questions via email; questions include: How aggressively should social media companies monitor and […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: 2,500 job cuts at news organizations were announced this week alone (Fast Company): Time Inc. cut 300 positions (Reuters) and the Verizon/Yahoo merger is expected to result in 2,100 layoffs (Huffington Post), while Vocativ laid off its […]
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Last year, Dow Jones conducted an internal review of its pay gap, concluding that there was little difference in pay based on gender and the disparities that did exist could be explained by men and women working […]