Hi everybody, Cheryl Acchison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl

Ackison podcast. Today, a real treat I think you're going to love. Not only are you going

to hear about an entertaining and enlightening new novel that has a lot to say about journalism from the inside,

but you also get to hear the author and me dish about the news, the early days when we both

worked at CNN, back when it was a news organization, and our thoughts on what it's become today,

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This conversation is with my good friend David Berncoff, former producer and executive at CNN,

also former producer at full measure, and now an author of a new book.

David, your novel, Your First, is called, I think if I remember this right,

without looking two years on another planet or is it Alaska?

That's it. You got it right, 100%.

So you worked.

We'll tell people about our history and our work relationship and we'll talk about our CNN days. People will be fascinated here. Some of your reflections on that in a moment. But we're going to get to that by first talking about this novel. I just finished it. I almost never can do for pleasure reading anymore because I have so much work reading to do.

But I read this for you, A, because you're a good friend of mine, but B, it was a page turner.

I loved it.

And I think people, even if they're not in journalism, will find so much humor and so many

interesting tidbits in this book.

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