I just got this email from Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs at the Columbia School of Journalism. It sounds interesting. It’s a free in-person event with a webcast as well.

“Changing Media Landscape, 2008” Columbia J-school’s annual look at the journalism revolution, with several fascinating influencers. This is a different kind of panel, with a real conversation among the participants and audience – with no Powerpoint in sight.

The Hearst Foundation, Columbia Journalism New Media Program and Columbia J-school Alumni Association present…

Columbia-Hearst Journalism Dialogues

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
6:30-9 pm (live webcast at 7 pm on http://mogulus.com/columbiajournalism – see local time around the worldl here: http://snurl.com/5a88p )

SPEAKERS: Sewell Chan, blogger/bureau chief, New York Times “City Room” blog (coming from midtown) http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/

David Cohn, J2008, founder, Spot.us, a new crowdfunding investigative journalism project; winner of $300,000 Knight News Challenge grant (coming from San Francisco) http://spot.us http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html

Adriano Farano, executive editor, CafeBabel.com – the first multilingual European current affairs online magazine (coming from Paris) http://www.cafebabel.com

Erica Smith, news designer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and “Paper Cuts” blogger (coming from St. Louis) http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts

Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief Slate Group – Slate, Slate V, The Root, and the Big Money (coming from downtown) http://www.slate.com

MODERATOR: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs

The Where and When

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 6:30-7:00 pm – networking reception – drinks and light food 7-8:30 pm – discussion 8:30-9 pm – reception and networking continue

No RSVP required. No charge. Open to the public. Add yourself to this form to be kept posted about future events like these: http://snurl.com/columbiasignup

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor – 116th St & Broadway [ #1 train to 116th St or get directions: http://www.hopstop.com/route?city=New+York&county2=Manhattan&address2=2950+broadway&mode=s ]

LIVE & ARCHIVED WEBCAST OF THE EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE VIA MOGULUS.COM: http://mogulus.com/columbiajournalism

NOTE: Free open, wi-fi available in the lecture hall for bloggers and others…