I'm Ben Bailey Smith and this is a Prisons Guide 2, a new podcast series from A-Cost

Creative along with HM Prison and Probation Service.

A guide not from CEOs, entrepreneurs or celebrities, but from some more overlooked sources of inspiration,

the people who work for the prison service across England and Wales.

A Prisons Guide 2, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

This episode of Reasons to Be cheerful is brought to you by the news meeting from Podimo

and Tortoise.

This is a new podcast that I'm really excited about.

It is a brilliant idea.

In each episode you hear three journalists pitching their idea of what the most important

story of the week is and this is basically what happens every day in every newsroom

in the world and you get to be a fly on the wall.

It is heated, it's competitive, it's informed, it's passionate, it's funny sometimes.

You're going to love it.

So they're pitching to James Harding who hosts the podcast and makes the decisions on what

leads, what follows and in what order.

And he is the real deal.

He's the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tortoise Media.

He used to be director of BBC News and the editor of the Times before that so he lives

and breeds this stuff and it is just fascinating to get to look under the bonnet of a newsroom

at this kind of level.

In case you didn't catch the name at the beginning it's called the news meeting and you can

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