The 2008 National Conference for Media Reform will be held here in Minneapolis a weekend from now June 6-8.

I’m excited to have a press pass to the conference.

These 3 sessions that jumped out to me immediately:

• Minnesota Model: Countering Corporate Media (while I’m concerned we’ll be beating a dead horse, I can’t miss this one)
• Raising Change for Making Change: Fundraising for Better Media (a panel on monetization! wooot!)
• New Directions in Public Media

These look interesting as well:

• Grassroots Lobbying 101: How to Design and Win Policy Fights
• New Media, New Models, New Journalism
• Free Speech in the 21st Century
• Corporate Media Confidential
• How Independent Media Creates Change
• Shaping the Internet the Fun & Easy Way
• The Changing Role of Media Critics
• Spectrum 2.0: Using Public Airwaves to Build the Future of the Internet
• Netroots: What’s Next?
• Analyzing and Deconstructing Media
• Everyday Heroes: The Power of One in a Connected World
• Media Policy in a New Congress and Administration