This webinar will be a conversation between Aisha Kehoe Down and James Wright on the art of sourcing in investigative journalism, and the difficulties and opportunities that arise from building sources in the digital age. It will focus on a recent investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, “Marlboro’s Man: Philip Morris’s Representative In Burkina Faso is a known cigarette smuggler,” an investigation which examined smuggling and illicit financial flows in Africa, as well as the behavior of large multinational corporations on the continent. Using this investigation as a springboard, it will delve into questions like, how do we strategically analyze institutions and organizations to get contacts? And, what tactics should we use in questioning and approaching different sources? This conversation will also include how to manage security concerns.