New Podcast To Probe High-Profile Crimes, Beginning With Jamal Khashoggi's Murder

Investigating The Khashoggi Murder

A new true crime podcast from EXILE CONTENT STUDIO and PRX will investigate high-profile crime stories, starting with the murder of WASHINGTON POST contributor JAMAL KHASHOGGI and the role of NSO GROUP's Pegasus surveillance software in tracking KHASHOGGI's inner circle prior to his death. “SHOOT THE MESSENGER,” posting bi-weekly and produced in a partnership with the COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS, is hosted by ROSE REID and NANDO VILA and debuted its first 10-episode season, subtitled “ESPIONAGE, MURDER AND PEGASUS SOFTWARE,” on JANUARY 24th.

EXILE CEO ISAAC LEE said, “We’re thrilled to partner with PRX on this podcast series, which represents our biggest and most important journalistic effort to date. Through ‘SHOOT THE MESSENGER,’ EXILE will build a strong pipeline to reveal and showcase critical stories from across the globe, as told by our experienced journalistic team, in partnership with reporters who often put themselves in harm’s way in order to reveal the realities of the world.”

PRX Chief of Business Development and Content JASON SALDANHA said, "We're pleased to serve as partners to EXILE CONTENT STUDIO to continue bringing great audio journalism to audiences. 'SHOOT THE MESSENGER' and future series will be essential for podcast listeners seeking ambitious stories, consequential narratives, and gripping audio."

“‘SHOOT THE MESSENGER’ is the latest example of EXILE’s commitment to taking a bold approach to using investigative journalism to look at lawsuits, assassinations, and other cases that often have left danger, dread, and even death in its wake,” said REID. “I can say that my experience reporting for this podcast has really changed the way I look at my personal and professional life as both a private citizen and a podcaster, and I’m sure it will have a similar impact on our listeners who won’t be able to help but get caught up in the riveting sagas we share each season.”

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS Advocacy and Communications Director GYPSY GUILLÉN KAISER added, “Anchored in CPJ’s extensive research, EXILE’s first season of ‘SHOOT THE MESSENGER’ will breathe life into the anatomy of a journalist’s brutal murder and the insidious surveillance that threatens journalists around the world. As EXILEs REID and VILA so vividly expose in each episode, spyware has been weaponized to intimidate other journalists too, putting them at risk of violence, and with some even wrongly jailed. The prospect of being targeted by this sophisticated surveillance technology suffices to hinder probing reporting of sensitive topics, and its unlawful deployment must be stopped, for it threatens our collective right to be informed.”

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