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 at 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 reasons to be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd.

Hello, hello! I noticed you're conspicuously not saying happy new year.

That's because we've already done a new year episode.

But we recorded it before Christmas.

I know, we first stopped to that. I think by January the 9th, which is when this podcast goes out, people have solved.

Do you have a cut off? Do you have a cut off for saying it?

Mine is mid-summer.

Is that all right?

Yeah, remember when we had checkbooks?

And you used to always put the previous year on the day.

Yes!

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