This March, a group of scholars, policy-makers, media makers and students came together for a one-and-a-half-day symposium to discuss the future of online journalism. This site includes the program and bios of all contributors, and hopefully will soon include video and/or audio of the presentations.

Be sure to click through to the second page of this Storify story for live Tweets from the discussion. 

The event was organized by student editors at this journal. Each year, I/S takes up a distinct area of interest at the intersection of law and policy. They host a convening, out of which come articles that form the journal. 

This year's topic had to do with information needs of communities -- a rubric laid out by the Knight Commission on Information Needs in Communities. Peter Shane, a law professor at Ohio State University, was executive director of the commission and the architect of its report. Many other scholars and policy researchers have taken up the info needs concept as the basis of future work -- including the Federal Communications Commission, which, under the leadership of Steven Waldman, undertook its own report on how the U.S. media system serves (and does not serve) the information needs of local communities.