Become a money trails expert

Become a money trails expert

From Backlight by Lighthouse Reports

April 30, 2025 · 29 min · Season 3 · Episode 6

About this episode

This episode provides tips and tools for financial investigations, featuring insights from experienced journalists on following money trails.

This month we’re sharing tips and tools to help you become an expert in financial investigations. From digging around corporate records, to tracking down public funding, money trails reporting is key to exposing wrongdoing. We speak with Margot Gibbs , senior reporter at Lighthouse, and Giacomo Zandonini , an independent investigative journalist, who share how following the money has strengthened their reporting, and tell us why you don’t have to be a numbers expert to do the same. Investigations mentioned in this episode: Lighthouse Reports: Hunger Profiteers Lighthouse Reports: Big Meat Lighthouse Reports: Turkey’s EU deportation machine Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang Sound design, mixing and editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang

Guests: Margot Gibbs, Giacomo Zandonini

Topics covered

  • financial investigations
  • money trails reporting
  • corporate records
  • public funding
  • investigative journalism

Keywords

  • financial investigations
  • money trails
  • corporate records
  • public funding
  • investigative journalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lighthouse Reports, Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions

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