Future Newsrooms, sort of

I was at the Future of Newsrooms panel in Berkeley the other night and noticed a couple other people from this group in the audience. Love to hear reactions from anyone else who went.

Here's the description:

Everyone is talking about the future of the newsroom in this new digital world where young people get their news from YouTube and Facebook, and traditional print journalists have seen hundreds of their brethren laid off or bought out. Join us for a discussion of how these changes are affecting journalists. What can media workers� unions do? Should journalists hurry up and learn how to blog and podcast before it�s too late?

And Featured speakers:

• Jeanne Carstensen, Salon.com Managing Editor
• Louis Freedberg, California Media Project Director and San Francisco Chronicle former editorial writer
• Luther Jackson, San Jose Newspaper Guild Executive Officer
• Chris O'Brien, who led the Mercury News Rethink project

My reaction is here. What did you think?