Thank You

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It’s over, we’re tired but exhilarated. The speakers were fabulous, and you all gave us great feedback. Thanks very much for attending and participating and making it a great success. The post below tells where to find coverage on paidcontent.org, and video will be going up later. 

Coverage of the Conference

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Some news broken here at the conference, and PaidContent is covering it all. The coverage is aggregated here.

Counting Down

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The opening reception is Monday night at the IAC building at 555 W. 18th Street for all conference attendees, and then we kick off the conference first thing Tuesday morning with opening remarks and a Q&A with Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller and Roger McNamee, whose Elevation Partners invested in Forbes.

There are a few tickets left through the registration page, or on site. We’ll have about 500 people attending this rare chance to see the top executives who lead business publications, blogs and TV networks and more discussing the core issues for the industry from every angle.

The Program Book In Full Color

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So 5 days left to go before the conference activities start, and we have the final program book for your perusal...the digital/PDF copy, that is. You can down from below, or here.

Here’s what the speakers list look like now:

In-person speakers: Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Media; Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks; David Carey, Publisher, Conde Nast Portfolio; Bob Carrigan, President, IDG Communications; Neil Cavuto, SVP/Anchor/ME, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network; Susan Clark, Publisher, Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa, The Economist; Gordon Crovitz, EVP, Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal; Trevor Fellows, Global Head of Media Sales, Bloomberg; Lauren Rich Fine, former newspaper analyst, Merrill Lynch; Keith Fox, President, BusinessWeek; Mark Hoffman, President, CNBC; Peter Horan, CEO, IAC Media & Advertising; Alan Ives, SVP, Sales, CNNMoney.com; David Jackson, CEO, Seeking Alpha; John Koten, CEO, Mansueto Ventures; David Levin, CEO, United Business Media; Om Malik, Founder, GigaOmniMedia; Roger McNamee, Managing Director, Elevation Partners; Alan Meckler, CEO, Jupitermedia; Scott Moore, SVP, News and Information, Yahoo; Rob Norman, CEO, Global, GroupM; Steve Rattner, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group; Gloria Scoby, SVP, Group Publisher, Crain Communications; Jane Seagrave, VP, New Media Markets, The Associated Press; Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business Information; Patrick Spain, CEO, HighBeam Research; Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Forbes.com; Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget; John Suhler, President, Veronis Suhler Stevenson; Devin Wenig, COO, Reuters; Kathy Yates, CEO, AllBusiness.com.

On video: Ann Moore, CEO, Time Inc; Larry Kramer, founder, MarketWatch; Jim Cramer, founder, TheStreet.com.

One unfortunate last minute change: Tom Clarke, Jr, the CEO of TheStreet.com, dropped out, after saying yes...the book went to print the day he said yes, so he’s in there.

Some tickets are still left...you can register here.

Conference Pre-Interview with David Levin of UBM

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David Levin, CEO of United Business Media, gives a frank interview on PaidContent about his B2B media business, including how the company has transitioned to events and why revenue for events is more protected than for other parts of the media business, how the credit crunch has made it easier to compete with private equity firms for capital, and why magazines will survive, as well as their place.

Levin is a featured speaker on our panel about Deals. The full schedule is here.

And we still have a few seats. You can register here.

Seeking Alpha on Newspapers on the Web

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The Seeking Alpha blog has a post by Felix Salmon on why newspapers should be free. He talks about whether the Financial Times should go free (using some pretty harsh assessment of where they’re at) and the Wall Street Journal strategy online—saying he’s confused by Rupert Murdoch’s recent pronouncements. We have Seeking Alpha CEO David Jackson as a speaker and can ask him all about it.

Pre-Interview: Neil Ashe, CEO of CNET

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Rafat spoke to CNET CEO Neil Ashe, a conference featured speaker, on the future of CNET, tech advertising market, competition, and other issues. Excerpts are here, at PaidContent. Ashe says CNET is much bigger than others who call themselves competitors, including the blogs Engadget and Gizmodo, and says the audience is not migrating away.