Making your investigation count at election time. What we’ve learned

2024 is the year of elections! For public interest journalism, it's prime time to get vote-shifting findings in front of people when they’re paying the most attention to politics. So with the European elections looming this weekend we chatted to Director Klaas Van Dijken and Food Systems Lead Reporter Thin Lei Win about their eye-opening investigations on two hot issues this EU election – EU border policy and the farmers protests. Read both the desert dumps and farmers protests investigations on our website: lighthousereports.com -- Hosts: Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Tessa Pang Sound Design: ⁠Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions⁠ -- ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠ - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com

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Backlight is a podcast produced by the investigations team at Lighthouse Reports. Every month we take you inside real world investigations to explain how they work, who works on them and how to get involved.