Me… and the Future of News

Your humble and obedient ink-stained wretch will participate in a panel at the downtown Minneapolis main library Saturday morning. The panel, titled “The Future of News: What Role for Journalists?” is part of a longer day of progress under the overall title of “Life After Newspapers.”

It’s the Annual Citizens Media Forum of the Twin Cities Media Alliance. The keynote speaker is Robert McChesney, a lefty communications professor at the University of Illinois and media critic/reformer who founded a group called Free Press.

My panel (admission is free) starts at 10 a.m. Other panelists include Joel Kramer, publisher of MinnPost, which will get its much-anticipated launch next week; Steve Perry, creator of The Daily Mole, which currently makes the hilarious claim “serving the Twin Cities for the past 75 hours”; Brian Lambert, who writes “Lambert and Rybak to the Slaughter” for The Rake; and Matt Thompson, deputy editor for interactive content, Star Tribune.com.

Here’s the schedule. If you don’t come, I will forgive you, but if you stop coming to this site, I will not.