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 Tuesday, October 14 10:45 AM - Noon Session II Digital Politics: The Game Changer of 2008; The 24/7 Hyper Campaign + New Media Platforms + Millions Connected = Politics in 2008 Alan Warms, General Manager, Yahoo! News Lee Brenner, Executive Producer of Political Programming and Director, IMPACT (Public Affairs), MySpace Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube Ari Melber, Journalist, The Nation Brian Scanlon, Director of Election Services, Associated Press Alex Wellen, Deputy Political Director, CNNPolitics.com Kathleen Hayden, Editor, AOL News Rory O'Connor, President and CEO, Globalvision, Inc., Moderator Lee Brenner, Executive Producer of Political Programming and Director, IMPACT: Lee Brenner is Executive Producer of Political Programming and Director of IMPACT (Public Affairs) at MySpace. As his first project with MySpace, Brenner spearheaded the company’s partnership with MTV and was an Executive Producer of the ground-breaking series of MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogues, the most interactive political engagement forums of the 2008 election season. Website: Impact.Myspace.com Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube: Steve Grove is the head of news and politics at YouTube where he directs all news and political programming for YouTube. Steve's role at YouTube includes managing You Choose '08, a centralized hub of candidate-created YouTube channels featuring campaign videos, speeches, and originally created content aimed at YouTube users. Steve also runs Citizentube, YouTube's highly popular political vlog, which highlights political content on YouTube and invites discussion and comments national and international politics. Steve also oversees citizen journalism content on the site. Since Steve joined YouTube, the political coverage on YouTube has helped spotlight issues and concerns that are important to the YouTube community. YouTube's goal is to empower and educate voters and candidates to enable a more robust and genuine public dialogue. Originally from Northfield, Minnesota, Steve worked at the Boston Globe and ABC News prior to joining the YouTube. He received a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Govt. at Harvard in 2006. Ari Melber, Journalist, The Nation: Ari Melber is the Net movement correspondent for The Nation magazine, the oldest political weekly in America, and a writer for The Nation's 2008 campaign blog. He is also a columnist for The Politico, a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum, a nonpartisan website covering technology’s impact on democracy, and he is currently on the road with the Obama Campaign for the Washington Independent. Melber served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate and was a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign. Alan Warms, Vice President and General Manager, Yahoo! News: Alan oversees all programming and content for Yahoo! News & Elections, Tech and Education. Alan joined Yahoo! in 2007 when Participate Media was acquired. Major Accomplishments at Yahoo! Played a key part in first-ever online only video interview with a sitting president (George W. Bush, May 13, 2008) -Oversees the #1 news and election site, with nearly 40 million unique monthly visitors -Involved in creation of Political Dashboard on Yahoo! News, which integrates polls, fundraising, and Yahoo! News Search Buzz. - Previous Jobs and Accomplishments: - Founder of Participate Media, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 - Publisher for both BuzzTracker and Real Clear Politics. - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Participate Systems, a provider of enterprise software and online community management services - In 2001, the World Economic Forum selected Alan as one of its 100 Technology Pioneers. Brian Scanlon, AP Director of Election Services, based in New York, NY. Scanlon joined the AP in March 2006. He has over 15 years of experience in elections and polling. He previously worked for Ipsos Public Affairs, the polling firm of record for the AP in Washington, DC. Mr. Scanlon works closely with broadcast, newspapers and digital groups in customer management, driving marketing efforts and product support to deliver reliable and innovative election services to AP members and commercial customers. He is a graduate of Loyola University and holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago. Kathleen Hayden, Executive Producer for AOL News: Kathleen Hayden joined AOL News nine years ago to run its 2000 elections coverage. Since then she has spearheaded all of AOL’s efforts related to political news, elections technologies, blogs including Political Machine, and citizen journalism/social networking. Before joining AOL, Kathleen was an editor for CNN/TIME’s joint political Web site, AllPolitics.com. She helped launch the site for the 1996 elections, and stayed on through the next three years. In her first-ever job, as a writer and researcher at TIME magazine, she helped create Time.com, one of the first major news publications to hit the Web. Kathleen hails from Boston, went to school at Haverford College and now lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Alex Wellen is CNN Deputy Political Director for Digital Content. He manages and coordinates CNN’s political coverage across all of its digital platforms including CNNPolitics.com, The CNN Political Ticker, video-on-demand, election coverage, live streaming products, and podcasts. He is also responsible for creating and launching dozens of politics and news initiatives and special reports on CNN.com as well as identifying and implementing fresh technology on-air and online. As senior producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Wellen wrote and produced hundreds of news segments examining the impact of the Internet on our lives as well as how user-generated content, social networking sites, the blogosphere, and online resources and tools influence breaking news, current events, and politics. His coverage of the 2006 Election earned him an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story.” He also co-created, executive produced, and co-hosted 100 episodes of the Emmy award winning series CyberCrime on TechTV, the first and only investigative TV series devoted to covering high-tech crime and electronic privacy. Wellen is currently a contributor to The New York Times and has written for The Wall Street Journal, McSweeney’s, C-NET, and San Francisco Magazine, among others. He is a graduate of Rutgers College of Engineering and received his law degree from Temple School of Law. Rory O’Connor is currently a Fellow at The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. An author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker, he is also co-founder and president of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and Board Chair of The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. O’Connor has directed, written and/or produced hundreds of television programs and films, and served as executive in charge of the award-winning broadcast newsmagazines South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television. His articles have appeared in many leading periodicals, and he is the author of the recently published Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio, as well as co-author of the Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America. A regular online columnist for AlterNet and MediaChannel, O’Connor also writes the popular “Media Is A Plural’ blog (www.roryoconnor.org.) His broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award, and a George Orwell Award, among others. Free TV : Ustream