By Hilke Schellmann
Moderator: Betsy West, associate professor, Columbia Journalism School
Alex Gibney, independent documentary film-maker: Financing and marketing investigative documentaries
Andrew Golis, deputy publisher, Talking Points Memo
Andrew Donohue, executive editor, VoiceofSanDiego.org
Bob Moser, investigative editor, Texas Observer
Brant Houston, Knight Chair for Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois
Five panelists from print, documentary and online investigative outlets [...]

by Kristin Jones
Moderator: Stewart Chisholm, senior program manager, Network Media Program, OSF
Michael Sullivan, partner, Levine, Sullivan, Koch
Stuart Karle, former general counsel, Dow Jones
Peter Noorlander, legal director, Media Legal Defence Initiative
Toby Mendel, Law Program director, ARTICLE 19
International differences in media law provide both risks to journalists in the U.S and elsewhere, and [...]

A presentation by Ying Chan, Founding Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong
Posted by Kristin Jones
Veteran investigative journalist and Chinese media expert Ying Chan led an audience of mainly American investigative journalists through some of China’s best watchdog journalism of the last decade.
The last few years have been a pioneering [...]

by Renee Feltz
Moderator: Josh Friedman, director of International Programs, Columbia Journalism School
Bruce Shapiro, executive director, Dart Center
Joel Simon, executive director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Kwame Karikari, head of the Media Foundation of West Africa (MFWA)
Drew Sullivan, advising editor, Center for Investigative Reporting, Bosnia
Investigative journalists are the most vulnerable to physical and psychological assaults, but few in [...]

The Challenges to Investigative Reporting in Today’s Market
Panel Discussion, 1-2:30pm, March 12, 2009
By Lizza Dwoskin
Bill Grueskin, academic dean, Columbia Journalism School
Paul Steiger, editor in chief, president and chief executive of ProPublica
Gustavo Gorriti, columnist, Caretas magazine, Peru
Mark Horvit, executive director, Investigative Reporters and Editors
Cheryl Phillips, data enterprise editor, Seattle Times, and president [...]