Hana Tanaka on Filing The Pass Every Morning
The news editor walks through her morning routine — sources, vendor-launch detection, and the moment in the day when she decides what the Monday newsletter leads with.
Show notes
Hana Tanaka edits The Pass, our daily news-and-analysis column. In this short-form episode she walks Samuel through the morning routine: how she scans for vendor moves overnight, which Slack rooms and Discord servers actually break news first, and the moment she decides what The Pass leads with.
Timestamps
- 01:30 — The sources you have to read overnight
- 05:00 — Why some Slack rooms are leakier than press releases
- 09:00 — The “lead-with” decision and what tilts it
- 12:30 — One mistake she made last quarter and what she’d do differently
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