Special Edition: Ending 2025 with Good News
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As we wrap up 2025 and head into a new year, we're taking a moment to focus on something we could all use more of: good news.
Branden Harvey from Good Good Good joins us to count down the 10 most popular good news stories of the year. These are stories of kindness, creativity, and community — small acts with big ripple effects — reminding us that good is happening all around us, and that we can all play a part in it.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, December 27th. As we close out 2025 and get ready to celebrate a new year, |
| 0:05.7 | we're pausing to focus on good news, not the loudest or biggest headlines, but the types of |
| 0:10.5 | stories that remind us of what's possible when people step up to help each other and look for |
| 0:14.7 | solutions. My guest today is Brandon Harvey, the founder and CEO of Good Good Good, a positive |
| 0:19.8 | news media company. He's also the editor-in-chief of The Good Good, a positive news media company. |
| 0:25.0 | He's also the editor-in-chief of The Good Newspaper, a monthly print paper filled with, |
| 0:30.0 | you guessed it, good news. He's sharing their 10 most popular good news stories from 2025. |
| 0:35.1 | These are stories about small acts with big ripple effects, reminding us that good is happening all around and inspiring us to not just read about good news, |
| 0:38.8 | but also be the good news whenever we can. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different |
| 0:47.9 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:51.3 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for |
| 0:59.0 | today's special edition Saturday. Brendan Harvey, thank you so much for joining us here on the |
| 1:06.3 | Newsworthy again. I am so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Erica. We're so happy to |
| 1:12.0 | have you. We always love talking about good news. And, you know, this year has felt pretty contentious. |
| 1:17.1 | No matter what side of the aisle you're on, the news can feel a little overwhelming. People feel |
| 1:22.0 | like there's this big political divide. Are you finding that people are seeking out good news more |
| 1:27.0 | than ever this year, or has it |
| 1:28.5 | just been information overload no matter what? I really do feel like this has been a big year for good |
| 1:34.1 | news. People are seeking it out and they're craving it. But more than that, it feels like a lot of |
| 1:39.5 | the energy around it is that people are seeing needs in their community. They want to make a difference. |
| 1:45.4 | They want to be the good news. And so they're almost looking for inspiration. And a lot of these |
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