When journalists become gold diggers

Freelance investigative journalists Ludovica Jona Lasinio (Italy) and Quentin Noirfalisse (Belgium) reveal how the gold in your wedding ring or hard drive may have been illegally mined in the Amazon, “laundered” in the Middle East and refined in Europe.

Learn about the intricate “gold chain” that connects Amazonian gold to European markets via Dubai, and how a lack of regulation has allowed the unlawful destruction of vast swathes of rainforest and rights abuses against indigenous people.

This podcast gives the backstory to The Gold Chain, a cross-border investigation supported by the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund. 

Credits

Hosts:

• Timothy Large, director of independent media programmes at the International Press Institute (IPI)
• Milica Miletić, project and events coordinator at IPI

Guests:

• Ludovica Jona Lasinio, freelance investigative journalist
• Quentin Noirfalisse, freelance investigative journalist

Editing and production: Timothy Large