Truth Tellers

Saudi’s Secret Maid Trade

Fri, 09 May 2025 09:36:44 GMT

Inside a year-long investigation into how the Saudi elite exploit and abuse East African domestic workers while politicians profit.

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India's YouTube Resister

Thu, 08 May 2025 16:40:28 GMT

The 30-year-old news influencer who has gained 28 million followers and the ire of India’s government for his compelling opposition to Prime Minister Modi.

Dhruv Rathee, YouTube Educator

Interviewer: Isobel Yeung, International Correspondent, CNN

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OnlyFans Exposed

Thu, 08 May 2025 16:20:50 GMT

A deep dive into Reuters’ seven-part series exploring the deception and manipulation behind the porn juggernaut.

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Yulia Navalnaya Unbowed

Thu, 08 May 2025 12:54:38 GMT

How the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is carrying on his fight to bring down Putin.

Yulia Navalnaya, Freedom Fighter and Human Rights Activist

Interviewer: Tina Brown CBE, Editor and Author

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James Carville: Politics’ Ragin’ Cajun

Thu, 08 May 2025 12:52:05 GMT

The celebrated savant of American politics gives his candid views on how Democrats can regain their mojo and where the US is headed.

James Carville, Political Consultant and Author

Interviewer: Alastair Campbell, Writer, Communicator, and Podcaster

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Jeffrey Goldberg Enters The Chat

Wed, 07 May 2025 16:10:00 GMT

The editor inadvertently added to a classified group chat about a real-time military strike discusses the scoop of the year and how he has transformed The Atlantic magazine.

Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic

Interviewer: Tina Brown CBE, Editor and Author

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The Life And Death Of Viktoriia Roshchyna

Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:00 GMT

How a global journalism collaboration finished the investigation cut short by the death of a Ukrainian journalist in Russian captivity.

Juliette Garside, Joint Deputy Investigations Editor, The Guardian

Laurent Richard, Investigative Journalist and Founder, Forbidden Stories

Katya Adler, Europe Editor, BBC

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How do we know what's true?

Wed, 22 May 2024 10:33:31 GMT

Across the world, polls suggest trust in traditional media is in decline. And disinformation in all its forms is on the rise. In this episode of Truth Tellers, Krishnan Guru Murthy from Channel 4 News is joined by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Turness from BBC News, Eliot Higgins from Bellingcat and Steven Brill of Newsguard.

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The media and Trump 2.0

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:34:09 GMT

Journalists Emily Maitlis, Jorge Ramos, Kara Swisher and RedBird IMI CEO Jeff Zucker sit down with Tortoise’s editor and co-founder James Harding. They discuss what the relationship between Trump 2.0 and the media might look like.

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The Questioner: A conversation with Wole Soyinka

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:32:46 GMT

The Nigerian writer, novelist and poet Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. In this episode of Truth Tellers he discusses Nigeria and colonialism with the BBC’s Mishal Hussain.

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How Russia outsources terror

Mon, 20 May 2024 12:30:00 GMT

Two men close to the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on the danger of exposing the lies of the Putin regime.

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Scrutinising the inscrutable

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:06:15 GMT

Gillian Tett, columnist and provost at King’s College Cambridge, is joined by Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor of the Sunday Times, and Paul Radu, co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

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Ghosts of Gaza

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:04:18 GMT

Journalist, Arwa Damon, talks to Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian photojournalist who has reported extensively from Gaza - and then Youman El Sayed and Safwat Kahlout who both work for Al Jazeera in Gaza.

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Introducing Truth Tellers 2024

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:05:01 GMT

A conversation hosted by Tortoise editor and founder James Harding from the launch of the 2024 Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism. He's joined on stage by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC from Doughty Street Chambers, BBC News presenter Clive Myrie and Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters.

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Forbidden Stories, with James Naughtie

Mon, 15 May 2023 13:54:53 GMT

Why kill a journalist if there are 30 others ready to take their place? The pioneering French publishers Forbidden Stories discuss the ‘SafeBox’ system of reporting from dangerous places.

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Iran’s crackdown, with Yalda Hakim

Mon, 15 May 2023 13:54:39 GMT

As the Iranian state attacks journalists at home and abroad, Masih Alinejad and Paul Caruana Galicia discuss the threat now posed by the regime with the BBC’s Yalda Hakim

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The power of investigative journalism, with Amol Rajan

Mon, 15 May 2023 13:54:15 GMT

Editors Dean Baquet from the New York Times, Roula Khalaf from the Financial Times and James Harding from Tortoise are joined by Nick Davies, the reporter behind the Guardian’s phone hacking reporting, to discuss how newsrooms should invest and support investigative journalism.

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John Poulos, CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, with David Walmsley

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:10:53 GMT

The co-founder and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems talks about how he took on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News in the courts – and won.

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Barry Diller, with Tina Brown

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:08:19 GMT

The media mogul who founded Fox Broadcasting Company talks about Rupert Murdoch – and the future of news.

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Anabel Hernandez, with Alex Crawford

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:06:41 GMT

Mexican reporter Anabel Hernandez discusses her 17-year investigation into the Sinaloa cartel, and the threats made to her life.

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Jesse Armstrong, with Tina Brown

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:04:13 GMT

The creator of hit TV show, Succession, talks about his inspiration for the Roy family.

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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, with Emily Maitlis

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:02:43 GMT

Journalism’s greatest power couple discuss the lessons of Watergate, and the enduring principles of good investigative reporting.

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The threat from Putin and Russia, with Andrew Marr

Mon, 15 May 2023 05:00:49 GMT

A discussion with leading journalists Maria Pevchikh (Navalny anti-corruption foundation), Christo Grozev (Bellingcat), Mikhail Zygar (TV Rain) and campaigner Bill Browder.

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Introducing Truth Tellers

Fri, 12 May 2023 14:44:46 GMT

Sir Harry Evans was arguably the greatest newspaper editor of the 20th century. The Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism brings together the biggest names in journalism to continue his legacy, and debate the future of speaking truth to power.

In this series we bring you conversations from the inaugural summit, which was held in London on 10th May 2023.

From Tortoise Media, in partnership with the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit for Investigative Journalism, Tina Brown Media, Reuters and Durham University.

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