The Project for Excellence in Journalism has put together a series of nine online panel discussions of industry leaders about the future of journalism. The roundtables began on July 10th.<\/p>\n\n
The virtual roundtables were put together in a particular way. PEJ contacted a group of industry experts for nine different media sectors\u2014network news, newspapers, cable news, magazines, local TV news, radio, online, ethnic media and alternative newspapers. For each panel, we posed a series of questions via e-mail, gathered responses into a roundtable format, and edited minimally for flow. We then sent the assembled roundtables back to each respondent, allowing them to revise or extend their remarks. The result, we hope, represents a new form of communication\u2014a virtual panel discussion.<\/p>\n\n
The panelists for the roundtables include:<\/p>\n\n
For Alternative Newsweeklies:<\/a>\nMatt Gibson<\/strong>, Publisher, The Missoula Independent; Julia Goldberg<\/strong>, Editor, Santa Fe Reporter; Richard Karpel<\/strong>, Executive Director, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; Alison True<\/strong>, Editor, Chicago Reader<\/p>\n\n For Cable TV<\/a>:\nRick Kaplan<\/strong>, former President and General Manager, MSNBC; George Niesen<\/strong>, Managing Editor, Kagan Research; David Payne<\/strong>, Senior VP, CNN News Services & General Manager, CNN.com; Judy Woodruff<\/strong>, Special Correspondent (Next Generation Initiative), MacNeil\/Lehrer Productions<\/p>\n\n For Ethnic Media<\/a>:\nSandy Close<\/strong>, Executive Director, New American Media; Ahn Do<\/strong>, Editor, Nguoi Viet 2 News; Juana Ponce de Leon<\/strong>, Director, Independent Press Association of New York; Edward Schumacher<\/strong>, Publisher, Rumbo Newspapers<\/p>\n\n For <\/strong>Local TV<\/a>:\nBob Chirdon<\/strong>, Vice President and General Manager, WTOL Channel 11; Scott Libin<\/strong>, Leadership & Management Faculty, Poynter Institute; Kay Miller<\/strong>, News Director, WWSB TV; Deborah Potter<\/strong>, President and Executive Director, News Lab; Don Shelby<\/strong>, Anchor\/ Reporter, WCCO<\/p>\n\n For <\/strong>Magazines<\/a>:\nWilliam Falk<\/strong>, Editor, The Week; Samir Husni<\/strong>, Chairperson, University of Mississippi Journalism Department and author of \u201cSamir Husni’s Guide to New Magazines\u201d; Daniel Okrent<\/strong>, former Editor, Time Inc. New Media; Victor Navasky<\/strong>, Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review; former Editor, The Nation<\/p>\n\n For Network TV<\/a>:\nTom Bettag<\/strong>, former Executive Producer, Nightline; Executive Producer, Discovery Networks; Jeff Gralnick<\/strong>, 48-year veteran of broadcast news, has worked for all three networks; Neal Shapiro<\/strong>, former President, NBC News; Andrew Tyndall<\/strong>, Publisher, The Tyndall Report<\/p>\n\n For Newspapers<\/a>:\nJohn Carroll<\/strong>, editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2000 to 2005; Paul Ginocchio<\/strong>, Media Analyst for Deutsche Bank; Rick Edmonds<\/strong>, Researcher and Writer for the Poynter Institute; Phil Meyer<\/strong>, Knight Chair in Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina; Rick Rodriguez<\/strong>, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of The Sacramento Bee, and in 2005-2006, President of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Lou Ureneck<\/strong>, Director of the Business and Economics Journalism program at Boston University.<\/p>\n\n