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Audio recording of "Breaking down the investigative narrative," a session at the IRE 2023 conference in Orlando on Thursday, June 22, 2023.

Session description: The goals of investigative and narrative writing can be in tension with each other –– one seeks to tell, the other show. But the best investigations deftly combine the two, using the tools of storytelling to make people and policymakers care about harms, wrongdoing and matters of accountability. We'll give an overview of how to report, write, structure and edit an investigative narrative and unpack the challenges that even veteran reporters and editors struggle with along the way.