In the last decade or so, podcasts have gone from being niche to becoming a widespread media format and are now a well established and mature medium. Podcasts bring about their own kinds of opportunities and challenges, and, from the point of view of storytelling, seem to be particularly suited to long reportage and investigations.
In this session, we'll hear from two journalists with experience in producing independent investigative podcasts in two different parts of Europe: Portugal and Poland.
How do journalists and newsrooms think of topics for an investigative podcast? What are the key editorial and non-editorial issues to consider? And the main pros and cons for independent newsrooms that want to produce investigative podcasts? How to conduct interviews about complicated issues and get people to be candid on the record? How to narrate investigations that rely on documents and can include complex, abstract issues? What are the lessons learnt after trying things that didn't work out that well?
