The Investigations Game - How to tackle the toughest stories

Investigations are slow-work, and often risky. So how do journalists get their break - especially as freelancers? We'll be talking to some of the best reporters in this field: how they find and fund stories, protect their sources, and convince editors to back them. Host Isabel Woodford is the founder of the London Freelance Journalism Collective. She left Reuters in 2024 and has gone on to be published in The FT, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the Times, The Telegraph, the New Scientist, and others. Earlier this year, she launched a course designed for freelance journalists, outlining a blueprint to build a solo career. Speakers Oliver Franklin-Wallis is an award-winning magazine journalist, whose writing has appeared in GQ, WIRED, The Guardian, the New York Times, The Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Economist’s 1843 magazine, among others. He left GQ to go freelance last year, and has since published investigations independently. Samira Shackle is a freelance journalist…