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Hosted by Type Investigations · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 37 episodes
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Welcome to The Backstory, where we sit down with our reporters and ask them to take us behind the scenes of their work. A nonprofit newsroom for independent investigative journalists, Type Investigations covers the most urgent issues of our time, including racial and economic justice, climate and environmental health, and civil and human rights. We tell deeply reported stories in partnership with print, broadcast, and digital media outlets — allowing us to bring our work to a wide range of audiences.
Type Investigations hosts The Backstory, a news show with 37 episodes published.
In this episode, we spoke to investigative reporter Byard Duncan about how he got his start in investigative journalism, his approach to public records requests, and the difference between reporting for podcasts and prin
In this episode, we spoke to investigative reporter Byard Duncan about how he got his start in investigative journalism, his approach to public records requests, and the difference between reporting for podcasts and prin
In this episode, we sat down with Hell Gate co-founder Max Rivlin-Nadler to discuss “Courts of Contempt,” an in-depth investigation into the New York City judicial system. “Courts of Contempt:” https://courtsofcontempt.h
This past January, ahead of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, we sat down with reporting fellow Adam Federman, former Ida B. Wells fellow Tanvi Misra, and In These Times Investigative editor Kathryn Joyce to discuss wh
In this episode, we sat down with Ida B. Wells fellow Liset Cruz to discuss her new investigation, "When Hospitals Act Like ICE," produced in partnership with The Nation. Cruz talks about what inspired her investigation,
In this episode, we sat down with Drew Hawkins to discuss his new investigation, “Trauma-informed nurses help sexual assault survivors. Most hospitals in the Gulf South don’t have them," produced in partnership with Gulf
In this episode, we sat down with Olga Loginova to discuss her investigative podcast series, “Leaving the Island,” produced in partnership with Audiation. The series covers the first federally funded effort to move an en
In this episode, we talk to Bryce Covert about her investigation, “McDonald’s Made a Commitment to Prevent Sexual Harassment—What Happened?”, produced in partnership with The Nation. Covert discusses she began reporting
In this conversation, we talk to former Ida B. Wells fellow Isiah Holmes about his new investigation, “How Wisconsin’s investigations into police shootings protect officers,” produced in partnership with Wisconsin Examin
As we head into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, we sat down with three of Type’s past reporters to discuss what we can expect from the upcoming administration, what it was like reporting on the first Trump term,
In this conversation, we talk to Allison Herrera about newest investigation, "Native women fought for years to expand Plan B access. But some tribal clinics remain resistant." produced in partnership with APM Reports and
In this conversation, we talk to former Ida B. Wells fellow Tanvi Misra about her newest investigation, "The fatal flaw in the Border Patrol’s rescue program," produced in partnership with High Country News. Misra speaks
In this conversation, we talk to former Ida B. Well fellow Lila Hassan about her new investigation, “Armed and untouchable: ICE’s history of deadly force,” produced in partnership with Business Insider and The Trace Hass
In this episode, we talk to Aurora Almendral about her four-part investigative series, “Merchants of Care,” produced in partnership with Quartz and the Pulitzer Center. Almendral speaks about how she learned about the nu
In this conversation, we talk to Type Investigations reporting fellow Adam Federman about his experience reporting on the ways corporations and governments have responded to protest movements. Federman discusses how he b
In this conversation, investigative journalist Anjali Kamat talks about the reporting process behind her investigation into the Trump Organization’s real estate deals in India. Her investigation, “Political Corruption an
In this conversation, we talk to Garrett Hazelwood about his new investigation, “Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions,” produced in partnership with WWNO and WRKF. Haze
Parental alienation is a disputed psychiatric diagnosis in which one parent is accused of having brainwashed their child against the other parent. In a new documentary, produced in partnership with Insider and Retro Repo
In this conversation, we speak to reporter Amelia Schonbek about her investigation, “Against a Sea of Troubles,” produced in partnership with Mother Jones. Schonbek discusses how she familiarized herself with the inner w
In this conversation, we talk to Ida B. Wells fellow Bobbi-Jeanne Misick about her investigation “The Imbalanced Scales of Immigration Justice,” produced in partnership with the Gulf States Newsroom. Misick talks about w
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