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Backlight Lighthouse Reports
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Backlight is a podcast produced by the investigations team at Lighthouse Reports. Every month we take you inside real world investigations to explain how they work, who works on them and how to get involved.
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Making your investigation count at election time. What we’ve learned
2024 is the year of elections! For public interest journalism, it's prime time to get vote-shifting findings in front of people when they’re paying the most attention to politics.
So with the European elections looming this weekend we chatted to Director Klaas Van Dijken and Food Systems Lead Reporter Thin Lei Win about their eye-opening investigations on two hot issues this EU election – EU border policy and the farmers protests.
Read both the desert dumps and farmers protests investigations on our website: lighthousereports.com
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
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Inside Europe’s biggest journalism conference
Journalism conferences can be an exclusive and costly space. So last month, Beatriz took her microphone to Perugia, Italy to give you some sneak peaks of the biggest trends coming out of the International Journalism Conference.
This episode features three interviews she did in Perugia discussing;
What truly collaborative investigations between global north and south partners look like, with Andrés Bermudez Lievano a Colombian journalist from Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP)
How can journalists nail vertical video on TikTok and Instagram with Enrique Anarte Lazo, a content creator and at Openly, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s LGBT platform
How journalists can empower policymakers and affected communities with solutions with Mia Malan, the editor in chief at the Bhekisisa health centre in South Africa.
And here’s a link to our investigation into Syrian Women on the Run that was just nominated for the European Press Prize.
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Episode Chapters:
(00:00) Beatriz’s wrap up of Perugia
(07:08) Lighthouse Reports at IJF Perugia
(11:58) Andrés Bermudez Lievano - Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP)
(20:13) Enrique Anarte Lazo - Openly
(28:37) Mia Malan - Bhekisisa health centre
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
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Website - Twitter - BlueSky - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com -
How to become an open source investigator
This episode, we dive into the skills and techniques used in open-source reporting (yes it’s more than just stalking people on social media!).
Beatriz and Tessa are joined by two of our open-source reporters Jack Sapoch and Monica Camacho. We talk about their roles in the context of a recent investigation that reconstructed the unseen events which saw 40 people suffocate to death in a migrant detention centre fire in Ciudad Juárez.
We’re also joined by our investigations editor Melissa Del Bosque to explain the strategy behind the investigation and how it was received.
Watch the video and read about the investigation here
And read more about our most ‘brain waste’ investigation discussed in the intro of the show
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
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Website - Twitter - BlueSky - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com -
What it’s like being a fellow at Lighthouse
Fellowship applications are now open!
This month we’re bringing you a bonus episode with one of our recent fellows Jonathan Moens. We speak about his experience at Lighthouse, his biggest takeaways and his tips for applying.
Lighthouse is currently hiring a part-time Data, OSINT and Reporting fellow for 6 months. Applications close April 8.
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
Website - Twitter - BlueSky - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com -
How to force a UK U-turn: Lessons from our Afghan left behind investigation
Hello and welcome back to Backlight!
In this episode, we talk to our investigations editor May Bulman, and social affairs correspondent from The Independent, Holly Bancroft about the exciting impact of their investigation into the Afghan commandos left behind by the British government.
It’s both a deep-dive into the investigation, and an inside look at the impact-driven strategy that compelled the British Government to reverse its previous decision to deny hundreds of Afghans safety in the UK.
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Here are the links to the coverage mentioned in the episode:
The write-up and video coverage from The Independent
Sky News coverage
BBC Newsnight coverage
The investigation write-up on our website
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
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Website - Twitter - BlueSky - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com -
Welcome to Season 2
In this episode, we’ll give you an overview of what you can expect from us this year as well as reflect on some highlights from Season 1.
And here are the links to the episodes mentioned in this one:
Europe’s Black Sites - May Bulman
Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies - Nicole Vogele
Suspicion Machines - Eva Constantaras
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Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang
Sound Design: Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions
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Website - Twitter - BlueSky - Newsletter - backlight@lighthousereports.com