DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

A Panel Discussion produced by the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism
as part of Journalism Week 2008: New Media. New Democracy.
JWeek08.journalism.wvu.edu

   
Ana Marie Cox     Philip de Vellis

   
Ross Douthat        Terence Samuel


Abbi Tatton


Michael Tomasky


Matthew Yglesias

Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox is the Washington editor of TIME.com, where she coordinates political coverage and hosts the Web site's political blog, Swampland. She also writes features and essays for both the print and online editions of TIME. Cox is the founding editor of the blog, Wonkette, covering politics, policy, and Capitol Hill gossip, and she is the author of the novel Dog Days, a political satire of Washington, D.C.

Philip de Vellis
Philip de Vellis is a senior associate and vice president of New Media at Murphy Putnam Media. He is best known as the creator of the “Vote Different” ad, which blended Apple's “1984” spot with footage from Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign Web site. The ad has received more than 3 million views on YouTube and was featured on every major television network, cable news channel, newspaper, and political blog.

Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and a blogger for TheAtlantic.com. He is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005), and the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, to be published this June by Doubleday.

Terence Samuel
Terence Samuel is deputy editor of TheRoot.com, an online magazine published by The Washington Post and aimed at African-American readers. Samuel is a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report and national correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the director of news programming at AOL Black Voices and is a political columnist for the online edition of The American Prospect, where he has written mostly about Congress.

Abbi Tatton
Abbi Tatton is an Internet reporter for CNN, covering blogs, Web video, and other new media for The Situation Room. As one of the first Internet reporters in television news, Tatton has produced stories on the war in Iraq, the London subway bombings, the 2006 midterm elections, and Hurricane Katrina. She has also covered the emergence of blogs and Web video as a force in national political campaigns.

Michael Tomasky — Moderator
Michael Tomasky is the editor of GuardianAmerica.com, the USbased Web site of the Guardian newspaper of England. The Web site provides coverage of American politics, culture, and general news, combined with material from the Guardian's global correspondents. Tomasky was the editor of The American Prospect, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Nation, and many other publications

Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias is an associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly and writes a blog for TheAtlantic.com. Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an associate editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, and The New Republic, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv.