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Backlight

Lighthouse Reports

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. New episode on the last Thursday of every month.

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37 episodes

  1. Journalism Q&A episode; pitching stories, career advice, fellowships, funding & more 30:31
  2. Nothing is apolitical w/ Afghan journalist Zahra Joya (Beyond Borders Podcast swap) 32:05
  3. Do you need to go to journalism school? Part 2 (Teacher Edition) w/ Lam Thuy Vo and Ron Haviv 39:33
  4. Do you need to go to journalism school? w/ Laís Martins and Shoeb Abdullah 38:32
  5. Reclaiming the migration narrative w/ Coco Khan, Sakhr Al-Makhadhi & May Bulman 43:41
  6. Lessons from Local News w/ M. Lothian-McLean, J. Mori & P. Prasanna 41:31
  7. How can the media win back our trust? w/ Ed Lee, Joi Lee & Isaac Saul 40:43
  8. Rethinking journalism awards w/ Patrick Boehler and Jennifer Athanasiou-Prins 33:03
  9. How to report on Sudan w/ Aziz Alnour & Sabrina Slipchenko 31:18
  10. How to make an investigative podcast (Live from GIJC 2025) 36:33
  11. How to become an undercover reporter 37:16
  12. Journalism in a Free Syria 34:03
  13. Highlights from seasons 2 & 3 8:10
  14. Who is journalism for? 31:05
  15. Tracking deforestation from space 31:29
  16. What journalists can learn from content creators 34:26
  17. Become a money trails expert 28:31
  18. The cost of Europe’s structural racism 21:14
  19. Don’t leave AI reporting to the experts 24:48
  20. Investigating border deaths in the shadow of US election 29:13
  21. How to get sources to talk 24:31
  22. Protecting mental health in the newsroom - what we’ve learnt 28:25
  23. How to fund your investigation 38:15
  24. Making your investigation count at election time. What we’ve learned 33:14
  25. Inside Europe’s biggest journalism conference 38:35
  26. How to become an open source investigator 44:26
  27. What it’s like being a fellow at Lighthouse 19:00
  28. How to force a UK U-turn: Lessons from our Afghan left behind investigation 37:50
  29. Welcome to Season 2 11:42
  30. Left Behind 18:20
  31. Drowning in Lies 9:48
  32. Europe’s Potemkin Lobby 14:14
  33. Ghost in the network 12:33
  34. Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies 11:28
  35. Suspicion Machines 11:59
  36. Black Sites 10:30
  37. Algorithm Addiction 9:04