Truth Tellers
By Tortoise Media
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 an independent newsroom dedicated to making sense of the world and the stories that matter. This summer, we're launching the Tortoise Journalism School, an intensive week-long programme in our newsroom in London devoted to workshops about journalism and work on a shared editorial project. Click here to find out more and to apply.
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How do we know what's true?
The battle to vanquish disinformation and restore trust in the media. -
The media and Trump 2.0
Journalists Emily Maitlis, Jorge Ramos, Kara Swisher and Redbird Capital CEO Jeff Zucker sit down with Tortoise’s editor and co-founder James Harding. They discuss what the relationship between Trump 2.0 and the media might look like. -
The Questioner: A conversation with Wole Soyinka
The Nigerian writer, novelist and poet Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. In this episode of Truth Tellers he discusses Nigeria and colonialism with the BBC’s Mishal Hussain. -
How Russia outsources terror
Two men close to the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on the danger of exposing the lies of the Putin regime. -
Scrutinising the inscrutable
Gillian Tett, columnist and provost at King’s College Cambridge, is joined by Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor of the Sunday Times, and Paul Radu, co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. -
Ghosts of Gaza
Journalist, Arwa Damon, talks to Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian photojournalist who has reported extensively from Gaza - and then Youman El Sayed and Safwat Kahlout who both work for Al Jazeera in Gaza. -
Introducing Truth Tellers 2024
A conversation from the launch of the 2024 Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism -
Forbidden Stories, with James Naughtie
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. -
Iran’s crackdown, with Yalda Hakim
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. -
The power of investigative journalism, with Amol Rajan
Editors from the New York Times, the Financial Times, Tortoise and the reporter behind the Guardian’s phone hacking reporting discuss how newsrooms should invest and support investigative journalism.
