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.

Common Knowledge: On the benefits and dangers of niche news, and why the democratization of information, is, in some ways, at odds with democracy itself. How can we preserve community–and facts themselves–in a news environment that is increasingly fragmented?

Brooke Gladstone host and managing editor of the US National Public Radio newsmagazine On the Media
Richard Sambrook director BBC Global News 2004-March 2010
Vittorio Zambardino new media expert La Repubblica