Webcast: 'Disrupting the News Industry'

The webcast of my panel, Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, a week ago at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s and Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism’s Internet East & West: China and U.S. conference has been put online. The other panelists were Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch; Dan Gillmor, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and author of the forthcoming book We the Media; and Ken Sands, managing editor of online and new media at The Spokane Spokesman-Review. The moderator was Bob Magnuson, lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and former CEO of InfoWorld. After an introduction by Paul Grabowicz, director of the UC Berkeley program in new media journalism, the order of speakers is Magnuson, Gillmor, Chase, Sands, and myself, followed by questions.