SmartHERNews

About SmartHERNews

Life is too short to waste time filtering through headlines searching for the facts. That's when we realized the need for a quick, trustworthy news source that makes staying up-to-date easy and interesting. Our Goal is to Clear the Clutter. We're committed to providing non-partisan news, in small servings, available wherever you are, whenever you want it. And for the Record: We Believe You're Already Smart. We don't need to tell you what to think or how to feel or what to believe. We just want to equip you with clear facts so you're prepared for any conversation, any vote, any choice and never feel like you're falling behind. Bullet-Points Without The Bias ~ We're bringing you #SmartHERNews. SmartHER News is created and hosted by journalist Jenna Lee.

Publisher

Jenna Lee

Category

education · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jun 2018

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

300 of 524 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   SmartHER On: The Death Penalty & Three Years After Oct. 7

   Mary Katharine Ham and Jenna explore the complexities of the death penalty and reflect on the evolving Middle East three years after the Oct. 7 attacks in this insightful interview.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   SmartHER On The Plague, U.S. Military Moves & Jobs

   Jenna of SmartHER News interviews herself, breaking down the latest jobs report miss, U.S. military moves from a UK base, and concerns surrounding a Russian lab plague outbreak.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   SmartHER On: The Cornell Lawsuit, The Midterms, and A Loophole In U.S. Law (And Beyond)

   Host Jenna, political commentator Mary Katharine Ham, and war correspondent Holly McKay dissect a Cornell lawsuit, surrogacy law loopholes, and midterm election insights in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

SmartHER On: The Death Penalty & Three Years After Oct. 7

Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That is actually going to be part of our kind of thesis today. We don't usually choose one, but as we were looking at the stories we were curious about and looking for a smarter angle, I thought to myself, you know, if we step back away from this 24 hour rapid fire news cycle, there actually are threads to the stories that we're looking at that are similar and are why these stories are conjuring up a of this messy feeling there's a lot of messy feelings about the news and different stories that we're covering whether it's cornell whether it's about uh the death penalty whether it's about foreign policy one of the threads that's similar is a question about justice you know who what is justice what does it look like who gets to hand down justice what's fair what's not fair uh does the punishment fit the crime it's really about justice And so what was interesting to me is that there were so many different news items, obviously about the Cornell case over the last week and a half. […]

Who has been a guest on SmartHERNews

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mary Katharine Ham
• Holly McKay
• Hollie
• Linda
• Dr Lynn Silver

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

112,802,563

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

668 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

96

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

99

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Books guests

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