Episode 9: TBIJ talk to BizNews
11/17/21 • 53 min
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and its reporting partners received hundreds of thousands of documents about British American Tobacco and its hired spies – and what they got up to in South Africa and beyond. It's a tale of spies, lies, tobacco and bribes, but how do you go from thousands of leaked documents to a story people would want to listen to? The team that reported out the story and turned it into an acclaimed eight-part podcast talk to BizNews and reveal how they did it.The resulting podcast "Smoke Screen" is A Novel Production for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Auddy. Panelists include:
Victoria Hollingsworth, reporter and podcast host.
Tom Wright, podcast producer
Chrissie Giles, global health editor at TBIJ
Alec Hogg, founder of BizNews
Chair: James Ball, global editor at TBIJ
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and its reporting partners received hundreds of thousands of documents about British American Tobacco and its hired spies – and what they got up to in South Africa and beyond. It's a tale of spies, lies, tobacco and bribes, but how do you go from thousands of leaked documents to a story people would want to listen to? The team that reported out the story and turned it into an acclaimed eight-part podcast talk to BizNews and reveal how they did it.The resulting podcast "Smoke Screen" is A Novel Production for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Auddy. Panelists include:
Victoria Hollingsworth, reporter and podcast host.
Tom Wright, podcast producer
Chrissie Giles, global health editor at TBIJ
Alec Hogg, founder of BizNews
Chair: James Ball, global editor at TBIJ
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