I added the boldface, after all this is my blog. Mike Miner may be right about the panelists being more in the digital immigrant, rather than digital native, group, but I think this will be a good discussion and I’d like to see it be a kick-off of an effort to bring together old and new media types around Chicago.

Davis has booked the Walnut Room of the Hotel Allegro (171 W. Randolph) from 1 to 4 PM Sunday, February 22. He’s lined up Tribune columnist Eric Zorn, former Sun-Times media writer Rob Feder, NBC’s Carol Marin, author Alex Kotlowitz, In These Times’s Salim Muwakkil, Columbia College journalism professor Barbara Iverson, Thom Clark of the Community Media Workshop, master blogger and former Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey, Chi-Town Daily News founding editor Geoff Dougherty, and myself. WTTW’s John Callaway and Ben Goldberger, the editor of the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post, are maybes.

via Chicago Reader | Hot Type | Ken Davis, many years ago the program director of WBEZ, has decided to step up and try to save journalism in Chicago..