In the last decade or so, podcasts have gone from niche to widespread media format and are now a well-established, mature medium. Podcasts bring their own opportunities and challenges and are 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 European countries: Portugal and Poland.

How do journalists and newsrooms come up with topics for an investigative podcast? What are the key issues to consider? What are the key pros and cons for independent newsrooms wanting to produce investigative podcasts? How do you conduct interviews about complicated issues and get people to be candid on the record? How do you narrate investigations that rely on documents and can include complex, abstract issues? What lessons have we learned from stories that didn't work out particularly well?