Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the President Monday, October 13 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Keynote Roundtable The Changing Face of News and the Presidential Election: The Power, The Influence and the Challenge of the Future Moderator - Campbell Brown, CNN Anchor Speakers Richard Stengel, Managing Editor, TIME Graydon Carter, Editor-in-Chief, Vanity Fair Jim VandeHei, co-founder, Politico Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S Campbell Brown, CNN Anchor: Campbell Brown anchors Campbell Brown: Election Center, the network's daily examination of news from the campaign trail that combines CNN's unrivaled field reporting and analysis with state-of-the-art broadcasting technology. Prior to joining CNN, Brown worked with NBC News for 11 years. While there, Brown served as co-anchor of Weekend Today. She also served as the main substitute anchor for Brian Williams and a primary correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the weekday Today show. For NBC, she provided award-winning reporting on Hurricane Katrina and covered the last two presidential elections and the death of Pope John Paul II. Brown made several trips to Iraq to report on the Iraqi elections, abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and the trial of Saddam Hussein. She also traveled to Gaza and the West Bank to cover events in the Middle East. Brown served as NBC News' White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's first term. She covered Bush's first presidential campaign and spent more than a month reporting from Austin, Texas, on the post-election recount story. Prior to covering the Bush campaign, Brown had been a Washington, D.C.-based NBC News correspondent. Joining the network in 1998, Brown was first assigned to cover President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. After that, she was assigned to the Pentagon, reporting on the war in Kosovo. During her time in the Washington bureau, Brown traveled extensively with Clinton. From 1996 to 1998, Brown was a correspondent for the NBC News Channel, where she covered national breaking news stories such as the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111 and the pope's historic visit to Cuba for NBC affiliates, MSNBC and CNBC. During that time, she was also a substitute anchor for the network's then overnight newscast NBC Nightside. Brown started her career in local news as a political reporter covering Kansas politics for KSNT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Topeka, Kan. She then moved to WWBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Va. Brown also reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before joining the network.Brown graduated from Regis College in Denver with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English in the former Czechoslovakia. Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME, oversees the world’s largest weekly newsmagazine, with 27 million readers worldwide; TIME.com, which draws nearly 6 million unique visitors a month; and TIME’s other brand extensions including TIME Style & Design and TIME For Kids. He was named TIME’s 16th managing editor on May 17, 2006. Among his other notable achievements, Stengel collaborated with Nelson Mandela on Mandela’s best-selling 1993 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and later served as co-producer of the 1996 Oscar-nominated documentary Mandela. He also served as the co-moderator for the ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum on September 11, 2008, where he interviewed Senators John McCain and Barack Obama on their views about national service. Stengel has a long history with TIME, having served at different times as the magazine’s national and culture editor as well as the editor of TIME.com. As a senior writer and essayist he covered both the 1996 and 1988 Presidential campaigns. Stengel has also written for The New Yorker, The New Republic and the New York Times. In 1998 he taught a course at Princeton called “Politics and the Press” before moving to a very different political arena in 1999 as a senior adviser and chief speechwriter for presidential candidate Bill Bradley. Most recently, Stengel was President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a museum, education center and think tank on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. In addition to his work on Long Walk to Freedom, Stengel has written several books including January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, A South African Town and You’re too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery. He is also a member of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Board of Advisors. Stengel graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1977 and played on its 1975 NIT-winning basketball team. As a Rhodes Scholar he studied English and history at Christ Church College, Oxford. A native New Yorker, Stengel is married to Mary Pfaff. They have two sons. Graydon Carter, Editor, Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992. Under his editorship, the magazine has won eleven National Magazine Awards, including two for general excellence for magazines with a circulation of more than one million—the highest honor in magazine publishing. Mr. Carter has been named Advertising Age’s editor of the year and is the first editor ever to be twice named Adweek magazine’s editor of the year. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Mr. Carter was the editor of The New York Observer, which he completely revamped. He came to the Observer from Spy magazine, which he founded in 1986 with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips. During Mr. Carter’s five-year tenure as co-editor, Spy’s circulation increased six fold and the magazine was nominated for two National Magazine Awards. He worked as a staff writer for Time, where he covered business, law, and entertainment for five years before joining Life as a staff writer in 1983. Mr. Carter is a producer of the documentary Chicago 10, which premiered on the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007, and he is also a producer of Surfwise, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007, and Gonzo, about the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson, which was directed by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney. Mr. Carter was an executive producer of 9/11, the highly acclaimed film by Jules and Gedeon Naudet about the World Trade Center attacks, which aired on CBS. Mr. Carter received an Emmy Award for 9/11, as well as a Peabody Award. He also produced the acclaimed documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, about the legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and opened in theaters in July of that year. Mr. Carter is the author of What We’ve Lost (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2004), a comprehensive critical examination of the Bush administration. He is also the co-editor, with Kurt Andersen and George Kalogerakis, of Spy: The Funny Years (Miramax, October 2006). He edited the best-selling Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (Viking Studio, October 2000), as well as Oscar Night (Knopf, October 2004), a lavish photographic history of the exclusive Oscar parties held over the past 75 years, and Vanity Fair Portraits (Abrams, September 2008), a collection of the magazine’s most memorable portraits taken over the past 95 years. Mr. Carter is also an owner of the Waverly Inn, a restaurant in New York City’s West Village. Born in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Carter resides in Manhattan with his wife, Anna, and their newborn daughter. He also has four older children. Jon Klein is president of CNN/U.S., responsible for management oversight of all programming, editorial tone and strategic direction of the network. He reports to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. Named to this position in November 2004, Klein previously served as president and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom, a broadband video company he founded in 1999. Under his direction, The FeedRoom became one of the leading online broadcasters in the world, delivering more than 1 million video clips each day to customers including CBS, NBC, ESPN, Reuters, Tribune television stations and newspapers, USA Today, Business Week, General Motors, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, General Mills and the U.S. Department of Defense. Before founding The FeedRoom, Klein was an executive vice president at CBS News, where he oversaw prime-time programming including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours and Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel. Klein also oversaw off-network production, guest booking, investigative reporting and strategic planning. Klein began his television career in 1980 as a news producer at WLNE in Providence, R.I., and the following year moved to a similar position at WPIX-TV/Independent Network News in New York. In 1982, he joined CBS News as a writer and news editor on the overnight broadcast Nightwatch. He subsequently served as broadcast producer on CBS Morning News and then CBS Evening News Weekend Edition, where he won an Emmy Award for live coverage of the 1986 Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1988, Klein joined the fledgling prime-time magazine series 48 Hours as a field producer, eventually winning an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Hugo and a Peabody Award for an hour he produced on the anti-abortion movement. Klein served as senior producer for CBS’s 1990 late-night series America Tonight with Charles Kuralt and Lesley Stahl, as senior producer for the network’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and later for the documentary Back to Baghdad, in which foreign correspondent Bob Simon returned to the Middle East following his imprisonment by the Iraqis during the war. In 1993, Klein launched a unique prime-time documentary series, Before Your Eyes, two-hour movies-of-the-week that explored social issues such as child abuse, AIDS and juvenile delinquency through the eyes of real people living through dramatic moments in their lives with the cameras rolling. The series, for which Klein served as executive producer and director, was acclaimed for pioneering new forms of storytelling and received numerous national awards. In 1997, Klein conceived and executive produced the CBS documentary Inside the Jury Room, in which network television cameras were permitted for the first time to observe deliberations in a criminal trial. The documentary won a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton. Klein also wrote the story for the TNT Original film Buffalo Soldiers, a 1997 historical drama starring Danny Glover. Klein graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1980 with a degree in history Jim VandeHei, 36, is one of the co-founders of Politico. He left The Washington Post, where he was national political reporter, to join forces with John F. Harris (his former boss at the Post) and the finest collection of journalists around to attempt to create a new and exciting way of delivering political news. He serves as the executive editor. (Please note that Harris took the best office and the best title, so all complaints should be directed to his attention). Jim proudly hails from Oshkosh, Wis., where he was born and raised and attended college (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh). He was hooked on journalism after covering sports for his hometown newspaper and running the Brillion News, a Wisconsin weekly, in the summer of 1993. After graduating from college, Jim packed up his car and headed to Washington, D.C., on Valentine's Day 1995. After a short stint with a leaflet publication called New Fuels Report, he got his start in political journalism at the now-defunct Inside the New Congress, working alongside John Bresnahan (now the congressional bureau chief for Politico) and Charlie Mitchell (now a top editor at Roll Call newspaper). Jim soon moved to Roll Call, where he covered the new GOP majority. His next stop was The Wall Street Journal, where he covered Congress and the White House. Finally, he landed at The Washington Post in 2002, where he covered Congress, the 2004 campaign, the White House and, ultimately, politics. On a personal level, Jim is more Wisconsin than Washington. Think fishing, family, beer and the Green Bay Packers. Jim adores his wife, Autumn VandeHei, and their two kids, Sophie and James, are pretty great, too. They live in Falls Church, Va. Streaming .TV shows by UstreamStreaming .TV shows by Ustream