{"podcast":{"title":"Backlight","slug":"backlight-6136461","podcast_index_feed_id":6136461,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/d90d7698/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.lighthousereports.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/36315382/36315382-1707825089853-e71c6ddacf677.jpg","author":"Lighthouse Reports","episode_count":33,"summary":"Backlight is a podcast produced by the investigations team at Lighthouse Reports. Every month we take you inside real world investigations to explain how they work, who works on them and how to get involved.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T00:17:32.188546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backlight-6136461"},"episode":{"title":"Investigating border deaths in the shadow of US election","slug":"investigating-border-deaths-in-the-shadow-of-us-election","published_at":"2024-12-10T05:37:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backlight-6136461/investigating-border-deaths-in-the-shadow-of-us-election","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backlight-6136461","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lighthouse-reports/episodes/Investigating-border-deaths-in-the-shadow-of-US-election-e2s34kt","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/d90d7698/podcast/play/95572061/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-11-9%2Fa6dbcc02-59b7-aae6-d028-f6808d78acf5.mp3","summary":"In this episode we take you behind the scenes of our latest U.S.-Mexico border investigation, Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande. This episode is a collaboration with The Border Chronicle. More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. In collaboration with the Washington Post and El Universal, our team requested records of drowning deaths which reveal for the first time how the river separating the US and Mexico has become a graveyard for migrants. In this episode you’ll hear some of the stories of those who drowned along the river. We talked to Lighthouse editor Melissa del Bosque about how we got the data, and what the findings of the investigation say about the reality of the border post-election. Investigations mentioned in this episode: Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande Desert Dumps -- Hosts: ⁠⁠Beatriz Ramalho da Silva⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Tessa Pang⁠⁠ Sound design, mixing and editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spoovio - Audiovisual Productions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠Instagram⁠ - and you can email us at backlight@lighthousereports.com","meta_description":"In this episode we take you behind the scenes of our latest U.S.-Mexico border investigation, Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande. This episode is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1753,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/backlight-6136461/episodes/investigating-border-deaths-in-the-shadow-of-us-election/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backlight-6136461/investigating-border-deaths-in-the-shadow-of-us-election.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}