Get Out Thursday: "No News Is Bad News" Panel

There's been a lot of talk about the possible closure of the P-I lately, but this Thursday there's going to be a panel discussion of Seattle as a "no-newspaper town." The cold truth is that neither the P-I nor the Seattle Times may emerge from this recession--and if one or both do, it is likely that massive restructuring will be called for. So "No News Is Bad News" asks what we rely on professional journalism for, and what we need to do to guide it through the end of the print mass media bottleneck.

The talk is being held downtown at City Hall, and the panel includes NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, UW digital media professor Kathy Gill, P-I columnist Art Thiel, and Seattle Times director of content Cory Haik. Dave Ross is the moderator.

While the panel will hold forth, as panels do, the purpose of the event is to get an active conversation started about what the future might hold for journalism in Seattle, and so you can submit questions for the panel online.

7 p.m., Thursday, February 26 // Bertha Landes Room, City Hall // FREE