No News is Bad News : Making it Work.

The forum will focuesd on current and near-term models for success in the post-newspaper framework. We are gathering a panel of local and national innovators to talk about their experiences finding and filling niches, gaining relevance with readers, and showing advertisers the power of local. The conversation will be moderated by Cory Bergman of MSNBC, an expert on the future of local media through LostRemote.com and MyBallard.com.

Tracy Record West Seattle Blog	Tracy Record is the editor and co-publisher of , the Seattle area's first financially self-sustaining online-only neighborhood-news operation, the only 24/7 news source for the city's biggest neighborhood. She founded WSB in late 2005 and has been working on it full time since late 2007, when she and co-publisher/husband Patrick Sand decided to try to make a go of it as a business. Tracy also spent more than 20 years in TV news -- receiving 3 Emmy Awards along the way -- and 2 years with the Walt Disney Internet Group, in roles including executive producer of ABCNEWS.com. She's also been a radio news director, newspaper reporter/editor, and even a disco-radio DJ.
Robert Khoo Penny Arcade	Robert Khoo is the president of operations and business development for Penny Arcade, the Show Director for PAX (the largest consumer gaming show in the United States), and is the Managing Director for Child's Play, the largest gamer-charity in the world.
Mike Davidson Newsvine	Mike Davidson is founder and CEO of Seattle-based Newsvine, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of msnbc.com. Mike is responsible for both the day-to-day operations of Newsvine.com as well as community integration efforts between Newsvine and MSNBC. Before co-founding Newsvine, Mike worked as Art Director and Manager of Media Product Development at both ESPN and the Walt Disney Internet Group and studied business at the University of Washington and Oxford University in England.
Scott Durham Instivate	Scott Durham is the founder of Instivate, a Seattle start-up providing local news and advertising services, and publisher of CentralDistrictNews.com, a news and information Web site serving Seattle's Central District neighborhoods.
Kery Murakami Seattle PostGlobe	Kery Murakami is leading the effort to start Seattle PostGlobe, a daily news site with 29 former PI journalists in partnership with KCTS 9 and KPLU. The entities will begin by working together and sharing stories at but are exploring jointly creating a new non-profit news organization. The initial PostGlobe site is expected to launch the week of April 12. Murakami has been a professional journalist for 20 years. Before being laid off he spent the last nine years as a reporter at the P-I, where he covered City Hall during the Schell administration, the monorail debate and most recently did stories about the SLUT, the closing of neighborhood dives, smoke-easies and other tales from the city. He also covered state politics as a Seattle Times statehouse reporter.
Rita Hibbard InvestigateWest	Rita Hibbard is a former assistant managing editor for news of the Seattle P-I who led a high performing newsroom to national recognition and was instrumental in its transition from print-focused to digitally driven. As direct editor of the investigative team, her reporters covered issues from corrupt cops to clear cutting Boy Scouts to government officials whose cronyism cost military families housing and taxpayers millions of dollars. Rita is a leader of InvestigateWest, a new effort to preserve the investigative, narrative, and enterprising core of journalism. With her team, Rita seeks to find new ways to tell the defining stories of the West and engage new audiences in enhancing democracy and community.