The Tip Off

A video of an extrajudicial killing haunts Aliaume Leroy - but how do you get to the truth from a short film posted on social media? 

Aliaume found himself banding together with open source investigators across the world in a race to uncover the truth behind the atrocity. This is the story of how they did it.

Read all about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-45599973/cameroon-atrocity-finding-the-soldiers-who-killed-this-woman

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

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Back in 2000 Jim DeRogatis received a fax that would change the course of his career forever. 

This is the story of how one journalist stayed on a story for decades, continuing to report allegations of abuse while the rest of the world covered its ears.

Read all about it: https://www.abramsandchronicle.co.uk/book/soulless-the-case-against-r-kelly/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Alice Milliken

Theme music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

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Brexit. It is all anyone is talking about. But while politicians argue and wring their hands, what is going on behind the scenes?

Alice Ross and Lawrence Carter, part of Greenpeace's Unearthed team, set out to find out and discovered one way that lobbyists might try to get their ideas in front of the right people.

Read all about it:

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/29/iea-hard-brexit-think-tank-access-ministers/

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/30/iea-brexit-shanker-singham-mark-littlewood-us-donors/

Fund in Lyra McKee’s memory: https://uk.gofundme.com/in-memory-of-lyra-mckee

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support and edit: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

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Madlen Davies has been reporting on a concerning topic for years: the rise of antibiotic resistance and superbugs.

Her reporting started in the UK but she soon realised she would need to travel further to get the real story. Here she talks about one international reporting trip... a story with a tragic ending.

Read all about it: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-08-08/scourge-superbugs-killing-babies-malawi

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support and editing: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

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Ashley Fantz often covers police press conferences as part of her day job at CNN. But a few years ago she would attend one that would set her on a months long journey, forensically piecing together the evidence to reveal the systematic destruction of vital police evidence.

This is the story of how a team at CNN revealed widespread issues in sexual assault investigations, across the USA.

WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and listener discretion is advised.

Read all about it: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/investigates/police-destroyed-rapekits/index.html

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

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Ep.28 W1G

What connects a wide-screen TV in the toilet, a faked blockbuster film and an elaborate Las Vegas heist? Turns out... it's one address in central London.

This is the story of how Oliver Bullough followed a tangle of financial crimes back to the source, discovering a far-from-transparent system on the way!

Read all about it: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-central-london-curious-case-29-harley-street and https://www.waterstones.com/book/moneyland/oliver-bullough/9781781257920

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation.

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Ep.27 Mother

Lorna Tucker doesn’t think of herself as a journalist, more of a collector of stories. So years ago, when she stumbled on a story that needed to be told, she knew she wouldn’t stop until the truth came out.

This is how she helped to document the stories of several Native American women who had undergone forcible sterilisation in the USA.

Correction: Maeve mistakenly refers to former US president LBJ as Lyndon Boyd Johnson, it is of course Lyndon Baines Johnson. Apologies.

Read all about it: https://amamovie.com/

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

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Shiv Malik thought he was onto something special. He’d been working with a source who was offering incredible insights into the UK terrorist scene. And now, this same source was saying he was ready to turn his back on his past life and he wanted Shiv to tell that story.

Then things fell apart.

Shiv's book The Messenger will be released in June 2019.

Read all about it: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-messenger/shiv-malik/9781783350452

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Production support: Cheeka Eyers

Music: Dice Muse, Poddington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions and Komiku

This series of The Tip-Off is brought to you in association with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. 

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Just a quick one to say thanks for all your support in 2018 and to update on plans for what comes next...... oh and to announce Maeve's part in a charity Christmas single.... yes you read that right!

We don't ask for much at The Tip Off but we'd be overjoyed if you'd spend just 99p to buy The Sounds of Christmas by Podcast Al-lStars. All money raised goes to Samuel's Charity which provides treats to sick children: https://www.samuelscharity.co.uk/

The Sounds of Christmas is available on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play and elsewhere: https://awal.lnk.to/podcastchristmas

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A court case, a mysterious witness and an envelope at the Post Office... this is the story of how Sam Bungey and Jennifer Ford unravelled a decade old murder case.

Recorded in front of a live audience as part of Audible's Spoken Worlds Festival- Maeve hears how Sam and Jennifer made the smash-hit podcast series: West Cork.

Read all about it:

https://www.amazon.com/West-Cork/dp/B0792BWQWT

Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music:  Dice Muse

Audio clips thanks to Audible.

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