In a land of rapid fire headlines, here's the news you can actually use. I'm Jenna, and this is

smarter news. Well, we have replaced a 24-hour news cycle with a new cycle that is based on

infinity. It just can go on and on and on. We've been in a breaking news environment,

really for the last several weeks, maybe even longer. And just for a perspective in my 20 years

as a journalist, this is a uniquely busy time, undoubtedly. It's not just the amount of news.

It's the variety of topics that require your brain to do acrobatic shifting from one to the next,

from a potential deal with Ukraine on raw earth acrobatic shifting from one to the next from a potential

deal with Ukraine on raw earth minerals to potential news on one of the most mysterious and dark

cases about human trafficking and abuse in a long time, the announced release of the Jeffrey

Epstein files. You know, a few thoughts that might be helpful on how to save your sanity during

this time from a journalist perspective.

One of the things I'm really trying to do is be more cognizant of news that happens spontaneously

versus news that is produced. For example, a sudden mid-air collision is news. No one expected it at

that moment and it required reporting. On the opposite end of the spectrum, news can also be produced.

You know, the attorney general, for example,

announced she was going to release these files for the Jeffrey Epstein case on Thursday.

We're still waiting for those files, by the way, at the time of this recording.

If we get these files or even if we don't, this story requires reporting too.

We just have a heads up on it.

Often news happens in a great area where there's a combination of planned and spontaneous.

For example, when two world leaders sit down at a planned meeting, but answer open-ended unexpected questions from the press as President Trump and the UK Prime Minister Starmor just did today. In all of these

cases, there can be news that really matters to you. Just because news is planned doesn't mean

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