Gloria Pan from The Media Center emailed me this afternoon to let me know that their upcoming webcast on the newspaper industry is generating tons of interest. (Gloria's great; I think she's cut from the same cloth Steve Rubel is.)

The last Media Center webcast I attended was fantastic, so I'm going to register for this one as well -- why not, they're free! ;-)

Here are the details:

FREE Webcast: The Vanishing Newspaper: Survival and Public Service in the Age of We Media
March 9, 2005, 2:00-3:30 ET (11AM PT), online

The Media Center will take a good, hard look at the newspaper-business model and its viability in a digital world. How can historic mass-media institutions use new communications trends and tools to once again take possession of credibility and public service, replant them in journalism's firmament, and transform themselves into vibrant 21st-century media enterprises?

This online event will be lead by Jeff Jarvis, well-known blogger and president of Advance.net. Panelists are:

• Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, UNC, Chapel Hill; author of The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
• Stefan Dill, Online Editor, freenewmexican.com
• Mary Lou Fulton, Publisher, northwestvoice.com, the Bakersfield Californian
• Tim Porter, newspaper analyst and blogger