Garrett M. Graff is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on technology and politics. As editor at large at The Washingtonian, he covers media and politics, edits the Capital Comment section, and serves as internet director. He has profiled Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, and FBI Director Robert Mueller, among others.

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.
 
Previously, he was the founding editor of mediaBistro.com’s Fishbowl D.C., 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, 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. He has spoken at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Press Club, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Defense Department, and the Google headquarters, as well as universities from Princeton to UT-Austin, companies, trade groups, and to overseas audiences at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.
 
In college, Garrett was a news writer and executive editor at the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University's daily newspaper, and held internships at ABCNews' Political Unit and at the Atlantic Monthly.

He can be reached at ggraff AT washingtonian DOT com.