I'm Maeve McLendigan and this is The Tip of, the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of some of the UK's best investigative journalism.

Over this first series, we've explored journalists breaking big stories, exposing things that people had no idea were happening.

But I wanted to finish up this series talking about something else.

How do you tell an ongoing story?

How do you keep the public and editors interested in a tragedy that

unfolds over years, not days? On this episode, we look at two stories, from journalists trying

to give a voice to people who are getting lost in the crowd.

The migration crisis continues in Europe. You've got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean.

The UN estimates there are 100,000 Syrian refugees now in Lebanon.

So far this year, more than 9,000 migrants have arrived illegally by boat from Turkey.

Well, it's a serious problem.

We haven't seen anything like it since the Second World War.

We start with Rebecca Omanera.

It's easy to lose track of just when the refugee crisis started.

The coverage of people huddled in camps or the fragile bodies of children

washed up carelessly on foreign beaches has ebbed and flowed for years. But Rebecca has been there

from the start. It's been a story that she's been covering since 2011. At that time, as always, there was a heated

debate in the UK about immigration and I was just very interested in why people were coming

and why people were taking these really dangerous routes, so risking their lives to

hang on to a lorry rather than sort of getting on a plane or things like that.

Rebecca is a freelance journalist.

And six years ago, she decided to start funding her own trips out to places like Spain and Greece.

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