Should have posted this much sooner. Here is the link to the event, which is sponsored by Media Bistro in New York: http://www.mediabistro.com/courses/cache/crs2869.asp

What: The future of photography – a panel followed by a Q & A:

Where: Cooper Union, Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place, New York

When: August 7, 2007, 7-9 pm

Who:

—Travis Fox, an Emmy award-winning video producer for washingtonpost.com, covering foreign and domestic stories. The White House News Photographers Association named him Editor of the Year three times, most recently in 2006.

—Santiago Lyon, director of photography for The Associated Press. He has 22 years’ experience in news service photography and has won multiple photojournalism awards. Under Lyon’s direction, the war in Iraq earned the AP its 48th Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

—Mario Tama, Getty Images, has covered global events including September 11, the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq. Tama has received numerous awards from Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism competition and the White House News Photographers Association.

—Jonathan Wells, director of photography at Sipa Press USA, where he oversees sales and development of new markets. In addition, he directs news and entertainment coverage in North America for global distribution.

—John Smock, moderator, photojournalist for SIPA and the Associated Press