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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. (www.fishbowldc.com), 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 is currently writing a book, “The First Campaign,” about technology, globalization, and the future of American politics, due to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2007.

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.

He can be contacted at ggraff AT washingtonian DOT com.