After two days of conversation on tackling threats to watchdog journalists worldwide and fostering the kind of innovation necessary to sustain investigative reporting, conference participants met in break-out sessions to identify next steps.

This panel will deal with the legal strategies watchdog journalists have used to counter libel suits and to protect their sources, as well as new ways of providing legal protection for investigative journalists.

This panel will show examples of these techniques and assess how successful they have been in terms of a) getting and analyzing information; b) telling the investigative story; c) getting the public involved; d) raising revenues for news organizations; d) building an audience for watchdog reporting and e) bringing about reforms. These goals are not always complementary and panelists are encouraged to discuss issues and problems encountered in the introduction of innovative information-gathering, story-telling, data presentation and community-building techniques.