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IJB launches new podcast, ‘Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook’

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Out now, the monthly podcast celebrates the best in investigative journalism and features conversations with investigative reporters from around the world

Toronto – The Investigative Journalism Bureau is pleased to announce the debut of its monthly podcast, Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook, examining powerful investigative journalism from around the world. The podcast pulls 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.

“The best investigative reporting always prompts a question –– how did they do that?” says IJB Director Robert Cribb. “Heliograph explores the sparks of ideas where stories begin, the harvesting of facts, the legal and ethical repercussions and the resulting stories that make a difference. It’s a real-life strategy session on truth telling that matters.”

Heliographs were devices for capturing images of the sun. As a podcast, Heliograph examines 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. 

The inaugural episode launching October 12, 2023 examines “Unguarded,” a three-month investigation by Miami-based WLRN Public Radio and Television reporters Joshua Ceballos and Daniel Rivero, showing how a government-funded program in Florida sold dozens of family homes for cheap to businesses and individuals that have ties to Miami’s city attorney.    

New episodes drop monthly on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.      

Heliograph LIVE: Jennifer Fraser on how the "gaslit brain" rewires us – Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook

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 researcher Dr.Jennifer Fraser, whom he first met in 2014 while reporting on allegations of physical and emotional abuse involving young athletes in Victoria, B.C., including her son. Fraser’s experience propelled her into a distinguished career studying the neuroscience of abuse. Her latest book, The Gaslit Brain, examines how psychological abuse doesn’t just wound emotionally, it also alters the brain, eroding trust, critical thinking and resilience.In an age of disinformation, where evidence is contested and social media often eclipses journalism, we are all increasingly vulnerable to manipulation.Rob and Jennifer, dive into the mechanics of gaslighting, how it operates, its effect on truth-telling and journalism, and what it means for all of us.Stay up to date with IJB investigations, podcasts and events by subscribing to the newsletter hereLearn more about IJB at: ijb.utoronto.caSupport the IJB at: https://ijb.utoronto.ca/support-us/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 honors since its inception in 2020.

Media contact: ijb.dlsph@utoronto.ca 

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