Wednesday, June 3, 12:30-1:45 PM (Eastern)
Streamed video: location to be announcedBackchannel: the #cfp09 hashtag

What is the future of print? This year several newspapers closed or shuttered their print operations. Is that a threat to our democracy and freedom? In the 19th century, some feared newspapers would displace books, just as some now say the Internet is a threat to papers. Is there a parallel between the introduction of Gutenberg's printing press and the Internet? Just as the printing press enabled a new renaissance of learning, will new media empower more diverse voices? Or are we already building the biases of the past into the media marketplace of the future?
Panelists

• Charlotte-Anne Lucas, WilCharMedia, San Antonio, Texas, longtime journalist, expert in media convergence
  
• Dori Maynard, president of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  
• Marcy Wheeler, aka EmptyWheel, investigative blogger at FireDogLake, and author of "Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy."
  
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, historian, author of "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change."