The Sacramento Press and The Sacramento Bee co-sponsored a panel discussion titled "Paying for Content" on June 22. The third floor of The Bee housed 37 people who gathered to listen to panelists discuss paywalls, online revenue and the relationship between consumer and organization. Independent journalist JT Long moderated. The panelists were Tim Foster, editor of Midtown Monthly; Michael Sanford, KVIE's vice president for content creation; Geoff Samek, co-founder of The Sacramento Press; Tom Negrete, Bee managing editor for the online edition and production; Ron Trujillo, editor of The Sacramento Business Journal; and Mike O'Brien, co-publisher and owner of Sacramento Magazines Corpor

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 e

Today The Sacramento Business Journal has a story about The Sacramento Press. This is a story about all of us readers and writers and I wanted to share it with all of you the moment it went out. But I can only share the first few sentences, click here for the story. Most of the story is blocked unless you have a subscription to the Journal. This is called a pay wall. I don't know how long the story will be stuck behind this pay wall (maybe only today), but when it is full, live, and free on the web I will post an update and a link. I do want to thank Melanie Turner, the author of the story, for her hard work sitting through our ramblings for literally hours. I also want to thank Dennis