Melissa Goldin, a NY-based News Verification Reporter and Editor with The Associated Press analyzes and debunks fake news.

This episode was originally published on 24 July 2024.

Nick McKenzie, award-winning Australian investigative journalist, shares the inside story of his role in exposing the Unaoil scandal.This episode was originally published on 12 July 2017.

Anand Mangnale of the OCCRP joins the podcast to describe his investigation into the practices of the vast and powerful Adnani Group in India, the spyware discovered on his phone as soon as the story began to break and the subsequent efforts to silence him, including bizarre charges of financial support of terrorism.

Paul Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist at the Financial Times and Author of &ldquoA Death in Malta&rdquo, joins the podcast to talk about the work of his mother, Daphne, the growing danger she perceived as her investigations reached the highest circles of power in Malta, and now the criminal proceedings against the two men who killed her. Paul also discusses the Daphne Foundation and the incredible journalistic community that worked together, again, to prove that killing a journalist won&rsquot kill their story.This episode was originally published on 12 October 2022.

Will Fitzgibbon of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) joins the podcast with an update on last year&rsquosFinCEN Files story, including a prison sentence for the whistleblower who leaked the information.The FinCEN Files project won the 2021 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.