The Story Behind News Items

In this special episode, host John Ellis explains how he developed the newsletter that forms the basis of the podcast, and how it evolved – from its start as a 2016 campaign newsletter for employees at Fox Business; to a morning newsletter for The Wall Street Journal CEO Council; to an independent newsletter published on Substack; to of course, a podcast. John also answers some of the questions he gets most frequently from readers and listeners, including how many people work on the newsletter (one), what time he starts at, and what sources he reads. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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Ninety percent of the news out there tells you nothing about where the world is going — ten percent of it tells you everything. Every afternoon on the News Items Podcast with John Ellis, John and Rebecca Darst focus on that ten percent — news that’s interesting, important or both. The podcast is based on John Ellis’ News Items, an email newsletter that goes out to organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations, Samsung Next, and the Wall Street Journal. Tune in every Monday through Thursday afternoon to hear decades of journalistic experience packed into 20 or so minutes of insight, plus guest interviews on finance, U.S. politics, foreign affairs, science and technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.