The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and its reporting partners received hundreds of thousands of documents about British American Tobacco and its hired spies – and what they got up to in South Africa and beyond. It's a tale of spies, lies, tobacco and bribes, but how do you go from thousands of leaked documents to a story people would want to listen to? The team that reported out the story and turned it into an acclaimed eight-part podcast talk to BizNews and reveal how they did it.The resulting podcast "Smoke Screen" is A Novel Production for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Auddy. Panelists include: Victoria Hollingsworth, reporter and podcast host. Tom Wright, podcast producer Chrissie Giles, global health editor at TBIJ Alec Hogg, founder of BizNews Chair: James Ball, global editor at TBIJ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
