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Tuesday March 27th, 2007 3:13 PM by Inky  
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Wednesday, a panel of new media leaders will assess the newspaper industry’s Web challenges and opportunities, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies will reveal the headlines of its latest EyeTrack research, and a group of editors will share experiences and advice on overcoming hurdles to achieve transformational change.

Thursday, in the session “Electric Sports: Games in the Internet Age and the People Who Run Them,” Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, NBA Commissioner David Stern, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will be interviewed by Michael Wilbon of The Washington Post and ESPN.

Also Thursday, InteractiveCorp Chairman and CEO Barry Diller, Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham and Huffington Post co-founders Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer will explore lessons from the digital revolution with Wall Street Journal’s technology columnists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher.

Justice Breyer will appear in a luncheon interview with Jess Bravin, who covers the Supreme Court for The Wall Street Journal. Later that afternoon, Brian P. Tierney, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and Chris Harte, chairman of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, will discuss their vision as recent investors in the newspaper business.

On Friday, discussions are planned with a panel of experts on Iraq and the Middle East, the tensions between the government and press in coverage of national security issues, and the medical care issues in the military and for veterans.

David Ignatius of The Washington Post will lead the Middle East discussion with Al-Arabiya Washington Bureau Chief Hisham Melhem, Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Nancy Youssef, former Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers.

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