28 Jul 2018

The Tip Off: behind breaking news

From The Podcast Hour, 12:40 pm on 28 July 2018
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The Tip Off takes you behind the scenes of the biggest investigative journalism scoops in the news today.

It's just won the award for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards, and each week host Maeve McClenaghan speaks to journalists about the sometimes painstaking research behind their major stories.

It's a UK show so big issues of the day there tend to take centre stage, with recent stories about knife crime and the abuse of the prescription tranquiliser Xanax. But there's an international dimension to many of the stories too.

We play some of Episode 7 'Codename Prometheus' which is about the Panama Papers, and how journalists from all over the world collaborated to cover the story.