Thank you Jessica Yellin, the brilliant creator of News Not Noise for last night’s live video chat. As those of you watching know, I knew Jessica a little bit when she was in New York/DC as the Chief White House correspondent for CNN. But I haven’t seen her in over a decade. So it was great to catch up!

All these years later, what an evolution she has effected! In 2013 she left CNN, wrote a satirical novel, Savage News, and then in 2018 she created the wildly successful platform on Instagram that is News Not Noise, that’s also here on substack.

I reached out to Jessica because I wanted to know how she chooses her stories for News Not Noise, and how she then figures out how to report them in a way that is meaningful and not shrill. Whatever she’s doing, it clearly works, because she has nearly 200,000 subscribers here! And that’s separate from her followers on Instagram and You Tube.

Watch the full conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.