Dating scams and how the World Service handles adult material
Listeners react to Love Janessa and how a 大象传媒 journalist exposed this online dating scam. Plus the podcast鈥檚 commissioning editor tells us how they handled adult themes.
Love Janessa is the podcast series that examines an online so-called 鈥渃atfishing scheme鈥� which deceives mostly men into falling for and giving money to an apparently beautiful young woman called Janessa. But, the seven-part series asks - just who is Janessa Brazil? We hear your thoughts on the series and we鈥� are joined by journalist Hannah Ajala who set out to uncover the truth behind this form of fraudulent online dating. Plus the show鈥檚 commissioning editor Jon Manel tells us how the 大象传媒 World Service handles adult themes.
Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Whistledown production for the 大象传媒 World Service
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- Sat 25 Mar 2023 09:50GMT大象传媒 World Service Australasia, Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & News Internet only
- Sun 26 Mar 2023 04:50GMT大象传媒 World Service East and Southern Africa
- Sun 26 Mar 2023 08:50GMT大象传媒 World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Sun 26 Mar 2023 17:50GMT大象传媒 World Service News Internet
- Sun 26 Mar 2023 21:50GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa
- Sun 26 Mar 2023 23:50GMT大象传媒 World Service East and Southern Africa
- Mon 27 Mar 2023 02:50GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East
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