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{{Short description|Defunct email newsletter (1997–2007)}}
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'''Need To Know''', also known as '''NTK''', was an [[email]] [[newsletter]], published late on Fridays, written by former ''[[Wired Magazine|Wired]]'' journalist and ''[[Irish Times]]'' columnist [[Danny O'Brien (journalist)|Danny O'Brien]] and former ''Wired'' and [[Future Plc|Future]] journalist [[Dave Green (journalist)|Dave Green]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mackintosh|first1=Hamish|title=Talk Time: Dave Green|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/oct/16/onlinesupplement|website=The Guardian|date=16 October 2003|accessdate=30 January 2016}}</ref> It was devised in 1996 while Green and O'Brien worked at ''Wired''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.spesh.com/ntk/ |date=2000-11-10 |title=NTK: Need To Know |quote=Here's our manifesto for the print version from 1996, originally planned during the dying moments of our encarceration at Wired}}</ref> NTK was published weekly from 1997 until 2004, when it moved to fortnightly publication. From May 2005 until July 2006 it continued on a monthly schedule, though it often ran late; the final newsletter on the website is a "MiniNTK" dated 8 January 2007.

The newsletter billed itself as "''the'' weekly tech update for the UK" (later "week[[Backspace#.5EH|^H^H^H^H]] fortnightly" or "week^H^H^H^H now-monthly") and presented the highlights of the week's happenings in the [[Information Technology|IT]], [[blogosphere]] and general [[internet]] community, with a focus on [[United Kingdom|UK]] culture and politics. It also looked at less weighty matters such as confectionery and nudity in films. It took an irreverent tone similar to ''[[The Register]]'', ''[[Private Eye]]'' and ''[[Viz (comics)|Viz]]''.