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Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

The LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Center for Politics and Governance present

Garrett Graff, Editor-at-Large of the Washingtonian Magazine and author of The First Campaign

Garrett Graff
Garrett Graff

Tuesday, February 5, 2008*
12:15 p.m.

LBJ Student Lounge
Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 3
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
2315 Red River Street
Austin, TX

*Lunch will be provided

Garrett Graff, Editor-at-Large of the Washingtonian Magazine and author of The First Campaign will be at the LBJ School on Tuesday, February 5th. Graff will be speaking on the intersection of politics and technology and how the internet has revolutionized our democratic process—the topic of his book. He will also be speaking on his experience as a Washington D.C. consultant and blogger and his time as deputy national press secretary for Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s 2004 Presidential Campaign. Graff's visit coincides with Super Tuesday in both the Democratic and Republican party races for the Presidency and he will discuss how the historic day could influence each party's nomination.

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Garrett M. Graff is editor-at-large at Washingtonian Magazine, where he edits the front-of-the-book Capital Comment section, and covers media and politics. He was also the founding editor of mediabistro.com’s Fishbowl D.C., a blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington.

As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology. He was formerly the vice president of communications at EchoDitto, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based internet consulting firm.

A Vermont native, he served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean's first webmaster. In college, he was a news writer and executive editor at the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University's daily newspaper, and interned at the ABC News Political Unit and at the Atlantic Monthly.