The Sacramento Press and The Sacramento Bee are co-sponsoring a panel on June 22, titled "Paying for Content." The panel will be at the Bee Headquarters on the third floor, 2100 Q St., from 6 to 8 p.m.

We have six panelists lined up:

Tim Foster is the editor of Midtown Monthly and has been active in the Sacramento arts and music scene for over 20 years. His professional publishing experience began at the California Journal magazine in 1996 and he has worked in nearly every aspect of publishing since.

Tom Negrete, managing editor for the online edition and production at The Sacramento Bee, has been a newspaper editor since 1989. He has worked at The Bee since 1994, as an assistant city editor overseeing local education and county government coverage, sports editor and assistant managing editor for business and sports. Negrete was named managing editor in 2008, and recently helped launch Sacramento Connect, a social media and linking network involving local blogs and websites using the latest web technologies. Before coming to The Bee, Negrete was assistant to the national editor at The New York Times.

Mike O'Brien is co-publisher and owner of Sacramento Magazines Corporation, which publishes SACRAMENTO, a monthly, subscription-based lifestyle magazine. The company also publishes Our Wedding magazine for Northern California brides-to-be twice each year, and does custom publishing for a variety of clients.

Geoff Samek is co-founder of Castle Press LLC, the company behind The Sacramento Press, where he is also head of the product team. Samek's background is in technology, with four years experience doing development and project management for high-profile companies, including Live Nation Inc., the world's largest concert promoter and a huge online event ticket seller. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego.

Michael Sanford is Vice President for Content Creation of KVIE; he joined KVIE in 2003. Sanford is an accomplished award-winning producer of television news and programming whose previous experience includes managing the West Coast reporting team and producing television segments for "Business Now," a half-hour program on major national commercial markets; reporting and producing for the News Travel Network; and producing segments for CNN, Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel. Sanford has won several Tellys for his work at KVIE and was part of the Emmy Award-winning team of "America's Heartland," KVIE's national public television series now in its sixth season. He oversees all production content for KVIE.

Ron Trujillo is the editor of the Sacramento Business Journal. He oversees news operations of the weekly newspaper. He was previously business editor of The Press-Enterprise, a 190,000-circulation daily newspaper in Riverside. He also served as business editor of The Fresno Bee, Central California's largest newspaper. His business section was honored by the Society of American Business Editors & Writers in 2004. He was also a business reporter for USA TODAY in the Money section.

JT Long will moderate the panel. Long is an independent journalist and SEO copywriter for publications such as Engineering News-Record, Comstock's Magazine and PublicCEO. She creates communities by telling stories.

The panel will focus on paywalls and the relationship between the consumer and the news organization. There will be prepared questions, but the majority of the time will be set aside for audience questions.

We expect a large turnout for this panel. You can RSVP by e-mailing workshops@sacramentopress.com.