Investigative journalism

‘Serious and silly’: Radio 4 team behind Now Show replacement plan to break news as well as joking about it

The broadcaster’s recently launched Naked Week will mix satirical humour and topical investigative journalism

Rachael Healy

07, Dec, 2024 @3:00 PM

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

Carole Cadwalladr

17, Nov, 2024 @8:00 AM

‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI

Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election

Tom Phillips and Patricia Torres in Caracas

27, Aug, 2024 @12:43 PM

Guardian Australia wins award for series exposing economic abuse at Centrepay

Reporters Christopher Knaus and Lorena Allam win outstanding consumer affairs category at Kennedy Foundation awards for excellence in journalism

Jordyn Beazley

16, Aug, 2024 @10:34 AM

I do not expect a free trial. But to give up means the end of journalism in Mongolia | Unurtsetseg Naran

Unurtsetseg Naran, editor of Mongolia’s Zarig news site, was jailed for nearly five years in a closed-door trial last week. Before the hearing, while under house arrest, she explained how she has fallen victim to her country’s crackdown on press freedom

Unurtsetseg Naran

24, Jul, 2024 @4:00 AM

Journalists win court fight to publish UK sex offender’s name

Bureau of Investigative Journalism applied to name father who wanted to have unsupervised contact with his child

Hannah Summers

17, Jul, 2024 @3:44 PM

The week in audio: Sonic Fields; Buried: The Last Witness; The Vaping Wars – review

A dive into the history of the UK’s music festivals is life-enhancing, while two disturbing investigative series tackle toxic dumping in Wales and the origins of vaping

Miranda Sawyer

29, Jun, 2024 @4:00 PM

Experts warn Julian Assange plea deal could set dangerous precedent

Human rights organisations want the next UK government to seek assurances from the US that it will not pursue journalists publishing classified information

Alexandra Topping Media editor

25, Jun, 2024 @4:17 PM

‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé

The star met an eco-activist who was convinced we’re all being poisoned by a chemical that was banned in 1981. Then he went to a toxic site and got sick. Head inside staggering new podcast Buried: The Last Witness

Daniel Dylan Wray

24, Jun, 2024 @12:06 PM