Hello and welcome back to Backchats, our roundtable discussion of the stories behind the stories.

If the regular nature podcast is a lovingly prepared breakfast, then Backchat is some half-cold toast as you run out the door.

This time on the show, we'll be talking about covering breaking news, taking a lead from our readers, and the ethics of editing genes.

I'm Nick Howe, and joining me in the studio are Davidey Castle Vecke.

Hello, Nick, I'm Davide, I am Black Hole correspondent for nature.

Anna Nagle.

Hi, I'm Anna, I'm the chief editor for digital and engagement for nature.

And Heidi Ledford.

I'm Heidi. I'm one of Nature's biomedical reporters.

Coming up in the show, we'll be chatting about our audience telling us what they want to know.

Is asking them for ideas the future of journalism?

We'll also be talking about gene editing.

What are the next steps?

Will it ever be socially acceptable?

Firstly though, listeners will likely remember the news coverage

of the first image of a black hole that happened back in April.

Across the world, there were seven press conferences where the

announcement took place and the news outlets worldwide jumped on it as a story.

Davidae, you were one of our reporters on the ground.

I was indeed, together with Shamini, who was our colleague from the media team, we went to

Brussels for the European press conference.

Before we get into talking about breaking news, could you just tell me what this story was about?

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