The festival will host a series of 4 panel discussions run in association with the Columbia Journalism Review online from the recently-initiated series Press Forward: dialogues on the future of news. Moderators (and authors of the series) Megan Garber and Justin Peters of the CJR.

Something to talk about: The web is often best used as a communications tool. Can and should news organizations rethink their web strategies in order to acknowledge this?

Adrian Michaels group foreign editor Telegraph Media Group
Marco Pratellesi editor Corriere della Sera online
Josh Young social media editor The Huffington Post