Garrett M. Graff
Washingtonian magazine
Garrett M. Graff is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on technology and politics. As an editor at Washingtonian magazine, he covers media and politics, edits the Capital Comment section, and serves as internet director. His first book, "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House," which examines the role of technology in the 2008 presidential race, was published in December 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to strong reviews. The New York Times' literary critic Michiko Kakutani wrote, "The astonishingly young Mr. Graff (who was born in 1981) proves in these pages that he is a cogent writer, willing to tackle large-scale issues and problems." Graff also teaches internet and social media at Georgetown University in the school's master's in journalism and communications program. He is currently writing a book about the FBI that will be published in Spring 2010.
Previously, he was the founding editor of mediaBistro.com's Fishbowl D.C. (www.FishbowlDC.com), a popular blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington, and co-founder of EchoDitto, Inc., a multi-million-dollar Washington, D.C.-based internet strategy consulting firm. A Vermont native and graduate of Harvard, he served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean's first webmaster.
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, and his reporter's notebook from that first day in the White House hangs in the newly opened Newseum in Washington, DC. His writing and commentary has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired magazine, the Politico, and the Huffington Post, and in 2008, he was named as one of four young "new media" journalists to watch by PRWeek.
He has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, and various NPR programs, as well as local and regional television and radio channels, and been quoted in publications ranging from US Weekly to the Miami Herald. He has spoken on the internet, new media, and politics at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Press Club, Harvard Business School, the Defense Department, and the Google headquarters, as well as universities from Duke and Princeton to the University of Florida and Rice University, as well as to companies, trade groups, and to many international audiences.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2009 January 14, 2009
Biography last updated January 1, 2009