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

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