It’s not a use of the term ecology that we are used to hearing, but apparently the new media has one — at least as far as the Knight Foundation and Yale Law School are concerned. They are hosting a two-day seminar entitled “Journalism and  the New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?”

The event will explore new ways for good reporting to survive as traditional media outlets like The Courant are stripped of their revenue and,consequently, human resources.

The Nov. 13 and 14 event is open to the public and includes panelists such as Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent; Steven Brill, Ellen P. Goodman, of Rutgers Law, (not the more famous columnist); Lester Crystal, CEO of MacNeil Lehrer  Productions; and a bunch of other well-known academics and media folks listed in this program.

Yalies get in free, but unfortunately there are no reduced admission prices for displaced and unemployed journalists.