Your humble and obdt. ink-stained wretch will participatie in a panel at the downtown Mpls. main libary Saturday morning. The panel, titled “The Future of News: What Role for Journalists?” is part of a longer day of programss under the overall title of “Life After Newspapers.”

It’s the Annual Citizens Media Forum of the twin Cities Media Alliance. The keynote speaker is Robert McChesney, a lefty communications professor at the University of Illinois and media critic/reformer who founded a group called “Free Press.” that’s Mc
Chesney at left.

My panel (admission is free) starts at 10 a.m. In addition to yours truly, panelists include Joel Kramer, publisher of the new media venture, MinnPost, which will get its much-anticipated launch next week; Steve Perry, creator of new online magazine  The Daily Mole, which currently makes the hilarious claim “serving the Twin Cities for the past 75 hours;” Brian Lambert, who writes “Lambert and Rybak to the Slaughter” for The Rake; and Matt Thompson, deputy editor for interactive content, Star Tribune.com.

Our panel ends at 10:50 and is followed by McChesney keynote speech, then lunch, then more programs in the afternoon. Here’s the full schedule. If you don’t come, I will forgive you, but if you stop coming to this site, I will not.