This paper studies costly information acquisition and transmission. An expert communicates with a decision-maker about a state of nature by sending a cheap-talk message. In ecient equilibria, the expert generally reveals all acquired information to the decision-maker. I show the existence of ecient equilibria under general conditions. For the class of posterior separable cost structures, I derive properties of ecient experiments. Under posterior-mean preferences, any cheap-talk problem is solved by a convex combination of two bi-pooling policies. The best bi-pooling policies are characterized for the uniform-quadratic case. Contrary to existing cheap-talk models, monotone partitions are not always optimal.