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Internet Week Panel Recap and Video: The Future of MediaJune 5th, 2008 at 7:30 amSource:CenterNetworks
Here are the panelists:
Opening the conversation, the panelists seemed to agree that music is the most hurt industry by online and that print was second. Michael believes that print will be gone within five years. Michael also goes off About.com as the source of traffic for the NY Times (which owns About). Most of the conversation took place as a battle between Michael and David. Patrick did a poor job in giving equal time to all of the panelists. Not all people will want to talk over other panelists and the moderator’s job is making sure each panelist gets a chance to speak. Johnnie suggested that Newsweek wants to tap into the blogger audience and that bloggers want to tap into the Newsweek audience. I can only tell you that bloggers already have the Newsweek audience. Erick explained that while he loves the NY Times, the actual paper rarely gets to a story first, he normally reads it online first somewhere. He suggested that the NY Times strength is in their editorial. He also said that media is about a two-way conversation. Thanks to Erick for the CN shoutout as well! If you are interested in four guys talking about how print is using online today, watch the video below. If you are looking for where media will be in five or ten years, don’t click play.
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Yesterday I attended a panel discussion on the "Future of Media." As a side note, it would be nice to stop using the word "future" as rarely do these panels ever actually discuss the future. This event was the same, it focused on today. Another note, several people made comments that apparently there are no women in the future of media as the panel was made up of all men. I’ve embedded the video below from 
