Watchdog Conference

As newsroom budgets shrink, nonprofit and other models for funding investigations are emerging. Investigative documentaries have received venture-capital and Hollywood funding. New technologies are making it easier and cheaper to produce and distribute journalistic investigations in various formats. 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