Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Scoop for the week of October 3rd. I'm so happy you're here.

This is our very first edition, edition number one, of the Scoop, which is a special report we're doing every week for our insider community that we just launched on Smarter News. And I'm so excited for this. You know, Smarter News is developed around the idea of quick, concise, nonpartisan information. I like to talk about it as small bites of information, like a tapas bar. You're getting a little bit of something throughout the week that you can trust. And over a period of time, those small bites really do add up. But we're also

in a point in the news cycle and in our growth of smarter news that I want to give you a little

something extra. And so that's where the idea for a scoop of something comes in. It's an expression

in journalism. You can get a scoop. You got the first scoop, an exclusive scoop on a story.

I was looking it up in the dictionary just to be sure. You always have to double and triple source, even though I've heard

that term used forever. But really, a scoop referencing information is just a grouping of information

together. And that's what we're going to do on Mondays. Because I don't know about you,

if Monday starts well, then the rest of the

week seems smoother. And if we're about delivering smarter news, then perhaps we can give

you a scoop of information at the beginning of the week, really set a foundation for you.

So you're not in the rat race of trying to get these updates all the time because you have an idea of what the stories are about going into the week. And yes, breaking news can happen. Of course, we're going to cover that. And you feel that underneath your feet. So it drops the anxiety level a little bit. This certainly does for me when I go into the week of smarter news, but also my family life, just having an idea of,

well, what are the big things that I absolutely need to know? So I'm not caught off guard in any sort of conversation. And I have an idea of what's happening in the world. And that's really what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to talk about the things that you need to know here at home, the things you need to know abroad.

And we're going to kind of mix them together.

We're going to talk a little bit,

and this is going to be unique

to this particular broadcast.

We're not... know here at home, the things you need to know abroad. And we're going to kind of mix them together.

We're going to talk a little bit, and this is going to be unique to this particular broadcast. We're not only going to give you the news, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the editorial decisions that are being made really in newsrooms all across the country and why they matter and how we're approaching some of these editorial decisions as well that I hope sets this apart a little bit. So I'm really glad

you're here. Thank you for your support of nonpartisan news and supporting a free press.

My job is a customer service job. I want to deliver the news to you. So it frees up your time.

You know, journalists are supposed to be checking headlines all the time. You're supposed to be

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