Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. Scoop 2, our second iteration of Scoop, which is an invite inside our newsroom here at Smarter News.

And we could talk to you a little bit more in depth about some of the big headlines of the week and also give you a behind the scenes perspective

about some of the editorial decisions that are being made around all sorts of newsrooms

all over the world that impact how we're telling the stories that we're telling.

And we have a lot of ground to cover today.

And in fact, I want to give a quick shout out, a quick thank you to the Policy

Circle. The Policy Circle is a great organization, a nonpartisan group that is in place to promote

civic discourse, which is something that we hope the media is a part of as well. The good, healthy,

nonpartisan news is also about. And the policy circle has a great event that's taking

place this week that you can attend for free. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about that

a little bit later on in the program, but just want to thank them for their partnership as well.

So speaking of newsrooms, here's how this is all going. As I've mentioned to you, we're at the

very beginning of this, this insider community. We're

building this group of people that's come together to support a free press. I'm so grateful for you

for all that you're doing for us and building this dream and really building the solution and

so we're still sort of working out the process of how are we doing this? How are we actually

producing the scoop at the

beginning of the week? We want that really good foundation for you. So if you can listen to

something in one swoop, that rhymes and intentionally scoop and swoop, but it's going to work

here. In one swoop, you can actually get a good dose of what's happening for the week and sort of

free yourself up from chasing all the headlines. So in preparation for this program, one of the

things I do regularly in general with smarter news is I do sort of what I call a brain dump.

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