From The Washington Post's coverage of Watergate in the early 1970s to coverage of recent popular uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, digital media tools have fundamentally changed the nature of reporting and the meaning of transparency. Citizen journalists have become instrumental to reporting major crises, internet sites gather digital archives of government and corporate information, and citizens now have instant access to the source material reporters use in their stories. Can the growing number of alternative platforms provide the protection of sources, can professional and citizen journalists work together to analyze and report, and how do laws designed in the pre-digital age relate to these new platforms, new forms of reporting, and new concepts of transparency?

Special Remarks: Bob Woodward, Associate Editor, Washington Post, United States

Moderator: Sheila MacVicar, correspondent, Canada

Abderrahim Foukara, Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Jazeera, Morocco

Elena Milashina, investigative journalist, Novaya Gazeta, Russia

Huma Yusuf, investigative journalist, columnist, Dawn, Pakistan