10.34934/DVN/JKQEUX Luo, Anna000-0002-0651-0461(Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2026 This dataset contains 26 episodes from the independent podcast "The Tip Off", which is produced and hosted by investigative journalist Maeve McClenaghan. The episodes were collected in 2025 and were selected through random and purposive sampling. They were analyzed via multimodal discourse analysis to examine how emotions were present in the discourses and sound design of the podcast. Luo, Anna(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)