Join us for a panel discussion about the coverage and ramifications of the big recent events in Silicon Valley, including the battle for Yahoo between Microsoft and Google, Current TV’s $100 million IPO, and more. Explore your interest in business journalism, too.

Here are the panelist bios:

Chris Gaither, a graduate of our program, is an assistant business editor at the Los Angeles Times, overseeing the newspaper’s technology coverage. He joined the Times’ San Francisco bureau in 2004 and covered Internet media and advertising for three years before moving to the editing desk. He previously covered Silicon Valley for the Boston Globe and the New York Times. He holds a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.

Vauhini Vara has covered the software and Internet industries for the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco and the Wall Street Journal Online in New York. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in International Relations.

Veteran business journalist Owen Thomas runs Valleywag, Silicon Valley’s technology gossip rag. Prior to joining Valleywag, Thomas was a print and online editor at Business 2.0.

Elizabeth Corcoran, the Technology Editor for Forbes.com, joined Forbes as the magazineÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s Silicon Valley bureau chief in 1999 and became a contributing editor in 2002. Previously Ms. Corcoran was a staff writer for The Washington Post. She joined the newspaper in 1994 and did award-winning coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case from Washington before establishing the paper’s Silicon Valley office.

Andreas Kluth has been writing for The Economist since 1997. In 2003 he became technology correspondent, based in San Francisco. Previously, he was based in Hong Kong covering business and finance in Asia. Prior to this, he covered finance from London. He has also been a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Jeanette Borzo has reported on business and technology — in markets from Silicon Valley to Paris to Moscow — for a host of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time magazine and Wired. When based in Paris as the senior European reporter for the Wall Street Journal.com, Jeanette appeared regularly on CNBC. Today she has a day-job as an editor for the monthly magazine California Lawyer, but continues to freelance for leading publications such as The Economist.

Matt Richtel covers a range of issues for The New York Times, from technical and breaking news stories about Silicon Valley, to trend pieces, slices of life and the intermittent account of what he calls the holy triumvirate: aliens, spam and Internet pornography. Richtel spent five years with The Oakland Tribune. Before that, he got his start in journalism at The Peninsula Times Tribune.

The panel will be moderated by New York Times reporter Matt Richtel and Marcia Parker, Director of the Bloomberg Business Reporting Program. Marcia and Matt teach a course called “Covering Silicon Valley.”

(After the panel, panelists will meet with students in Marcia and Matt’s class.)