Every day, in every newsroom around the world, there's a meeting to decide what leads the news.

It's often argumentative and occasionally heated.

In this new podcast, you'll get to hear the argument for yourself.

As each week, three journalists pitch the story they think mattered most.

And at the end of each episode, I'll decide what comes out on top.

I'm James Harding and from Podomo and Tortoise, this is the News Meeting.

Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey listeners, I've got something special to share with you this week.

It's a preview of the Happiness Lab.

On the Happiness Lab, Dr. Laura Santos shares evidence-based research

that will challenge what you think it means to live a happy life.

Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale,

the most popular class in the university's history,

you'll hear inspiring and surprising stories that will make you think differently

about your own happiness.

This season, she's helping us navigate something most of us avoid bad feelings.

Many of us assume that we can only be happy if we push aside negative emotions

like stress, sadness, and anger.

But what if these bad feelings are telling us something important?

What if instead of suppressing our nastiest emotions, we could find power in them

to improve our well-being?

Joining her are leading experts like Brane Brown, Adam Grant, and Susan David,

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