Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook
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Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook is the The Investigative Journalism Bureau's monthly podcast, examining powerful investigative journalism from around the world. The podcast will pull back the curtain on the strategies, lessons learned, and stories behind the stories that change the world.
Hosted by IJB journalists, listeners can expect candid conversations with accomplished reporters sharing the inspirations, challenges, risks and rewards behind some of the world’s most impactful investigative reporting.
Heliographs were devices for capturing images of the sun. As a podcast, Heliograph will attempt to examine the brilliant, elusive and inspiring work of some of the world’s best investigative reporters in an attempt to understand their methods, techniques, motivations and reverberations.
Each installment of Heliograph focuses on reporting that creates meaningful change and reflects the IJB’s core values: collaborative and innovative storytelling in the public interest. The podcast also embodies the IJB’s educational mission to offer top-notch training in investigative research and reporting.
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The Investigative Journalism Bureau is an impact-driven, collaborative newsroom that brings together professional and student journalists, academics, graduate students and media organizations to tell deeply-reported stories in the public interest. Based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the IJB has national reporting honours since its inception in 2020.
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S3E1 Heliograph LIVE: Jennifer Fraser on how the "gaslit brain" rewires us
Heliograph LIVE, a special feature of the Investigative Journalism Bureau’s Heliograph podcast, where we showcase compelling interviews. In this episode, host Rob Cribb reconnects with author and…
S2E4 Heliograph: Arthur Caplan on Can We Trust the System Behind Drug Trials
In this episode of Heliograph, host Blair Bigham sits down with world-famous bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan to pull back the curtain on the shadowy world of phase one clinical trials, where new drugs…
S2E3 Heliograph Snapshots: Ben Hallman, Breaking Ground on International Health Reporting
In the latest episode of Heliograph Snapshots, host Ryan McMahon speaks with Ben Hallman, founder and executive director of The Examination. The IJB had the pleasure of catching up with him after the…
S2E2 Heliograph Snapshots: David Cay Johnston, Journalism in a Democracy at Risk
In this episode of Heliograph: Snapshots host Ryan McMahon sits down with Pulitzer Prize winning David Cay Johnston. The IJB had the pleasure of catching up with the New York Times best selling…
S2E1 Heliograph LIVE: Rick Westhead on Investigating Corruption and Abuse in Sports
Heliograph LIVE is a special feature in the Investigative Journalism Bureau’s Heliograph podcast series where we showcase compelling interviews.Welcome to the Press Club, a unique gathering in the…
S1E9 Heliograph Snapshots: Reporting on The Invisible Burdens of Women
In this episode of Heliograph: Snapshots, we talk with IJB OG, Emma Jarratt. What makes Jarratt's reporting important is not just that her work takes aim at power, but that her work shares stories…
S1E8 Heliograph Chapter 7: Reporting on the sadistic world of monkey torture
In the latest episode of Heliograph, BBC reporters Rebecca Henschke, Joel Gunter, and Astudestra Ajengrastri reveal the harrowing process behind their documentary, "Saving Mini: Inside the Global…
S1E7 Heliograph Snapshots: Reporting on death featuring Robert Cribb
In this episode of Heliograph:Snapshots, Robert Cribb, director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau and investigative journalist with the Toronto Star, delves into the complex world of medical…
S1E6 Heliograph Chapter 6: Stacked Against
In this month’s installment of Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, IJB reporters Alina Snisarenko and Norma Hilton speak with Jacob Biba about his investigation with the Carolina…
S1E5 Heliograph Chapter 5: Suspended
In this monthly install of the Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, IJB reporters Wendy-Ann Clarke and Masih K interview one of the IJB’s own, Declan Keogh, on the bureau’s…
S1E4 Heliograph Chapter 4: Above the Law
In this month’s installment of Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, IJB reporters Wendy-Ann Clarke and Masih Khalatbari speak with South African reporter Daneel Knoetze about his…
S1E3 Heliograph Chapter 3: Uncovering how cancer-stricken children around the world were given faulty drugs
In this month’s installation of Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, reporters Rosa Furneaux and Laura Margottini at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) take us behind the…
S1E2 Heliograph Chapter 2: The Vulkan Files
In this month’s installation of Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, we speak with Hannes Munzinger, the lead reporter on a Der Spiegel investigation on the leaked Vulkan files. Among…
S1E1 Heliograph Chapter 1: Unguarded
In this month's episode, IJB reporters Norma Hilton and Alina Snisarenko speak with Florida reporters Daniel Rivero and Joshua Ceballos about their series, "Unguarded." The series uncovered that the…
S1 Introducing Heliograph
Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook is the The Investigative Journalism Bureau's monthly podcast, examining powerful investigative journalism from around the world. The podcast will…
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Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook has published 15 episodes since October 2023, covering topics in Government, History.
Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook is currently declining with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 21m.
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