This episode of Reasons to Be Chirphal is brought to you by the newsmeeting 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 listen wherever you get your podcasts and follow the feed for new episodes every Friday.

This is Raisins to Be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Lloyd.

Hello! Hello!

I wanted to congratulate you. Before we even get started, I was scrolling through Twitter and I see that your book, which I know has been consuming you.

You've been pouring yourself into it for months and months and months.

It's now almost, you can almost touch it. It's there. You can pre-order it. I can see the cover. I can see the quote.

It looks fantastic. The design's amazing. There was one thing though.

It's almost written as well, actually.

I'm really zoomed in very carefully on the cover and I thought you might have wanted some kind of endorsement from me on there and I can't say it.

The request is actually in the post. Did it not arrive?

I've got the perfect quote for your cover.

Go on.

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