How to report on Sudan
Using OSINT and on-the-ground reporting to uncover atrocities in Sudan
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How to make an investigative podcast
Live from the world’s biggest investigative journalism conference
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How to become an undercover reporter
You’ve seen it in movies, but what does undercover reporting actually look like in real life?
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What is the role of accountability journalism in post-Assad Syria?
We speak with Syrian journalists Bashar and Mais about their first investigation in a newly free Syria.
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Who is journalism for?
This month on Backlight, we talk to journalists who are rethinking how and who they report for
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Tracking deforestation from space
Remote sensing analysis to uncover the scale of deforestation in the Philippines
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What journalists can learn from content creators
We dive into how news content creator journalists are building trust, communicating complexity, and making journalism not just informative, but engaging.
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Become a moneytrails expert
Find out what it takes to lead financial investigations with tips from Lighthouse reporters.
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The cost of Europe’s structural racism
Europe frames migration as a crisis—but this masks the reality of its aging population and skills shortages
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Don’t leave AI reporting to the experts
You don’t have to be a tech reporter to cover AI
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Investigating border deaths in the shadow of US election
In this episode we take you behind the scenes of our latest U.S.-Mexico border investigation, Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande.
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How to get sources to talk
Essential skills and techniques on building sources and getting them to open up.
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Protecting mental health in the newsroom – what we’ve learnt
In this episode, we take a closer look at the often unseen mental health challenges that can accompany a career in journalism
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Backlight: How to fund your investigation
In this episode of Backlight we uncover the secrets to securing grants and funding in investigative journalism
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Making your investigation count at election time. What we’ve learned
With elections sweeping the globe this year, this episode covers how investigative journalists can get potentially vote-shifting findings in the media at a time where people are paying the most attention to politics.
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Inside Europe’s biggest journalism conference
Interviews discussing the latest trends in journalism from the hotel lobbies and conference corridors of the International Journalism Festival (IJF)
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Backlight: How to become an open source investigator
A deep-dive into the skills and techniques used in open-source reporting
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Backlight: What it’s like being a fellow at Lighthouse
Hear from former fellow Jonathan Moens about his experience at Lighthouse and his tips for applying
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Backlight: How to force a UK U-turn: Lessons from our Afghan left behind investigation
A deep-dive into the impact-driven strategy behind the investigation from editor May Bulman, and social affairs correspondent from The Independent, Holly Bancroft
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Welcome to season 2 of Backlight
Every month we give you inside access into collaborative investigations and their impact in the world.
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Backlight: Left Behind
Insights from Lighthouse Contributor Abbas Azimi on our Left Behind Series
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Backlight: Drowning in Lies
Deep dive into the investigation behind “Drowning in Lies” and the follow up, “Smuggler Warlord, EU Ally”
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Backlight: Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
Behind the scenes of Europe’s biggest and most powerful farming lobby group, Copa-Cogeca with lead Food systems reporter, Thin Lei Win and editor, Lionel Faull.
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Backlight: Ghost in the network
We speak to senior reporter Crofton Black, about leading the Ghosts in the Network investigation
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Backlight: Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
We speak to Nicole Vogele, a lead reporter behind our Unmasking Europe’s Shadow armies investigation
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Backlight: Suspicion Machines
We dive into the complex world of predictive algorithms with our data editor, Eva Constantaras
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Backlight: Europe’s Black Sites
We speak to investigations editor May Bulman, about her work on the Black Sites investigation
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Backlight: The Algorithm Addiction investigation
Find out more about what it takes to do an award winning investigation from one of our lead contributors.
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