
Yes, AI is judging you
Secret algorithms are secretly judging us. Governments across Europe are using flawed AI for law enforcement and predictive policing, quietly shaping justice and playing with people’s lives. Join us as we go behind the s

Hosted by IJ4EU · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
The Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund supports watchdog journalism on transnational subjects. We speak to the reporters behind cross-border investigations that have made headlines across Europe.
IJ4EU hosts IJ4EU Confidential, a news show with 16 episodes published.

Secret algorithms are secretly judging us. Governments across Europe are using flawed AI for law enforcement and predictive policing, quietly shaping justice and playing with people’s lives. Join us as we go behind the s

This episode takes us behind the scenes of the Border Graves Investigation, an award-winning journalistic collaboration that documented more than 1,000 unmarked graves of people who died on European migration routes. Wit

This episode goes behind the scenes of Bears Uncovered, a cross-border investigation exposing the surging brown bear populations in Europe and their complex relationship with humans. With insights from investigative jour

European firms continued supplying a mega Russian gas project after the invasion of Ukraine — until they were busted. Hear from journalists behind Defusing a Russian ‘Carbon Bomb’, a cross-border investigation into how E

Fifty journalists. Thirteen organisations. Damning findings. Behind the scenes of a groundbreaking investigation. This special episode of the IJ4EU Confidential podcast features leading contributors to The Gaza Project o

We uncover the chilling realities of drone warfare in Ukraine with one of the journalists behind a groundbreaking investigation into Russia’s drone supply chain, Russia’s War, Europe’s Burden. Discover how Iranian-made k

Freelance investigative journalists Ludovica Jona Lasinio (Italy) and Quentin Noirfalisse (Belgium) reveal how the gold in your wedding ring or hard drive may have been illegally mined in the Amazon, “laundered” in the M

From the Bialowieza Forest on the Polish-Belarus border to the depths of the Brazilian Amazon, reporters supported by the Investigative Journalism for Europe fund have left no stone unturned in pursuit of their stories.

Sudan is in the grip of an underreported catastrophe. Fighting between the national army and Janjaweed paramilitaries known for war crimes has devastated Khartoum and razed to the ground cities in the western Darfur regi

Thinking of buying a puppy in Europe? A quick Google search will bring up countless ads promising the fluffball of your dreams. You can even have a dog delivered straight to your door. But a cross-border investigation in

Due to the nature of their work exposing wrongdoing and holding power to account, investigative journalists are vulnerable to attack: smears, intimidation, legal perils and outright violence. Such threats multiply in cou

Think organised crime in Italy, and chances are you think of the Cosa Nostra, Camorra or Ndrangheta. But the newest kids on the mafia block come from China — and they’re expanding their influence across Europe. Host Timo

Frontex, the EU’s fastest-growing agency, is responsible for policing the EU’s external borders. In recent years, it has been hit by allegations of complicity in human rights abuses and revelations of secret meetings wit

Journalists from Oštro, a centre for investigative reporting in the Adriatic region, discuss the challenges of exposing white-collar crime in Slovenia and Croatia — two countries on the EU’s southeast flank where the spa

The latest episode of the IJ4EU Podcast takes a behind-the-scenes look at The Vapour Trail, a cross-border investigation into secret lobbying by the tobacco industry. This cross-border collaboration between French daily

The IJ4EU fund has launched a podcast dedicated to cross-border investigative journalism. Listen to the stories behind IJ4EU-funded investigations, from the journalists who worked on them: how they built cross-border tea
Detected from recent episode content. Sponsor presence is a real signal of listener purchasing power and show monetisation.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.








To pitch IJ4EU Confidential, visit https://ij4eu.podbean.com for contact information, then craft a tight one-paragraph hook that ties your expertise to a gap in their recent news coverage.
IJ4EU Confidential is hosted by IJ4EU. The show is categorised under news and has published 16 episodes.
IJ4EU Confidential has published 16 episodes.
IJ4EU Confidential regularly covers news. It sits in the news category.
IJ4EU Confidential is accessible for guests with genuine news expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
IJ4EU Confidential hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of IJ4EU Confidential average 44 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates IJ4EU Confidential's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 5 days ago.