Episodes

  • 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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  • 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. 


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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  • 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 


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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  • 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.


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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  • 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. 


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.



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


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.



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


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.

    

    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.



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


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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


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


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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  • 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. 


    Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism.


    For early access and ad-free listening subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or join Tortoise for £60 a year.


    As a member you’ll also get our newsletters and tickets to live events. Just go to tortoisemedia.com/slowdown.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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