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 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Session I The Influencers: The Editorial, OpEd Pages, TV Analysts - Establishing and Defining the National Conversation Peggy Noonan, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal Byron York, White House correspondent, National Review Jeff Greenfield, Senior Political Correspondent, CBS News Jeffrey Toobin, Analyst, CNN Worldwide Josh Marshall, Publisher, Talking Points Memo Frank Rich, Op-Ed columnist, The New York Times, Moderator Peggy Noonan, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal: Peggy Noonan is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the best selling author of seven books on American politics, history and culture. Her essays have appeared in Forbes, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other publications. She is a frequent guest on political talk shows. She has also been nominated for Emmy Awards for the writing of a post-9/11 television special and for her work on the television drama The West Wing. Noonan is a member of the board of the Manhattan Institute. Her most recent book, “John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father,” was published by Viking in November, 2005. Her collection of post-9/11 columns, “A Heart, a Cross and a Flag: America Today,” was published by Free Press in June, 2003. “When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan,” published by Viking in November, 2001, was a New York Times bestseller. Noonan is also the author of the best selling “The Case Against Hillary Clinton” (HarperCollins, March, 2000). Her first book, “What I Saw at the Revolution” was called “A love letter to the American political process,” by Time Magazine. Her second book, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” was called “the voice of our times” by USA Today. Noonan’s third book, “Simply Speaking,” was published in paperback as “On Speaking Well,” in 1999; Forbes magazine said of it, “Peggy Noonan packs a wallop of practical wisdom and insightful tips for rookie and veteran speechmakers alike…this wee volume, written by one of this century’s premier presidential speechwriters, will guide you correctly.” In 1996, Noonan was one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” In 1995 she wrote and hosted a PBS series on the debate over American values. Noonan was a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. In 1988 she was chief speechwriter for George Bush when he ran for the presidency. She holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, Miami University, and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer at CBS News in New York, where she wrote and produced Dan Rather’s daily radio commentary. She also wrote television news specials for CBS News. As editorial and public affairs director at WEEI-AM, the CBS owned station in Boston, she won the Tom Phillips Award for broadcast commentary. In 1978 and 1979 she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. She lives in New York City. Byron York is the White House correspondent for National Review magazine and National Review Online. Now covering the 2008 presidential campaign, he has written extensively about the Bush administration and its battles with Democrats in Congress over the war on terrorism, national security, and Supreme Court and appeals-court judicial nominations. He is also the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, the first book to trace the new political movement created by activists like MoveOn.org, George Soros, and the liberal blogosphere. A weekly columnist for The Hill newspaper, his work has been published in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and Weekly Standard. A contributor to Fox News, he has appeared on Fox News Sunday, Special Report with Brit Hume, Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Daily Show, and other television programs, and has contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and the University of Chicago. He lives in Washington, DC. Jeff Greenfield, a veteran political, media and culture reporter, is returning to CBS News as senior political correspondent beginning May 1, 2007. He will contribute to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, CBS News Sunday Morning and other CBS News broadcasts, as well as CBSNews.com. Greenfield has been a senior analyst for CNN since 1998. During that time, he served as its lead analyst for its coverage of the primaries, conventions, presidential debates and election nights, as well as presidential funerals and Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Greenfield also has reported on the media, culture and trends for the cable network. His writing, reporting and analytical skills are second to none and, heading into the 2008 elections, he'll add even more depth and expertise to CBS News' coverage. He will also add his unique perspective to coverage of culture, lifestyle and trends. Though Greenfield's reporting has taken him to locales around the world from South Africa to Japan to Europe, he is principally known for his coverage of domestic politics and media. He has served as a floor reporter or anchor booth analyst for every national convention since 1988. He has twice been named to TV Guide's All-Star team as best political commentator and was cited by the Washington Journalism Review as "the best in the business" for his media analysis. Before joining CNN, Greenfield was a political and media analyst for ABC News (1983-97), appearing primarily on "Nightline" and delivering weekly commentaries for "World News" Sunday. Previously, he was the media commentator for CBS News (1979-83). Greenfield has also has appeared on William F. Buckley’s "Firing Line" and PBS' "We Interrupt This Week." He is currently the anchor of PBS' "CEO Exchange," a limited-run series now in its fifth season. Greenfield has won three Emmy Awards, two for his reporting from South Africa and one for a profile of Ross Perot. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's and National Lampoon. Greenfield is the author or co-author of 11 books. His first novel, "The People’s Choice," was a national bestseller and was named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. His most recent book was "Oh, Waiter, One Order of Crow," an insider's account of the contested 2000 presidential election. Jeffrey Toobin, Analyst, CNN Worldwide: Jeffrey Toobin is a CNN legal analyst for CNN Worldwide. Based in the network's New York bureau, Toobin joined CNN in April 2002. Toobin joined CNN from ABC News, where, during his seven-year tenure as a legal analyst, he provided legal analysis on the nation's most provocative and high profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the Kenneth Starr investigation of the Clinton White House. Toobin received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzales custody saga. Toobin remains a staff writer at The New Yorker where he has been covering legal affairs for the magazine since 1993. He has written articles on such subjects Attorney General John Ashcroft, the 2001 dispute over Florida's votes for president, the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the trial of Timothy McVeigh His article, An Incendiary Defense, published in the July 25, 1994 issue of the magazine, broke the news that the O.J. Simpson defense team planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence and to play "the race card." Previously, Toobin served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. He also served as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience that provided the basis for his first book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case--United States v. Oliver North. Toobin has written several critically acclaimed, best-selling books including A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson; and Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election. All three books were published by Random House. Toobin earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Frank Rich, Op-Ed columnist, The New York Times: Frank Rich is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. His weekly 1500-word essay on the intersection of culture and news helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in the Sunday Week in Review section in April 2005. From 2003-2005, Mr. Rich had been the front page columnist for the Sunday Arts & Leisure section as part of that section's redesign and expansion. He also serves as senior adviser to The Times's culture editor on the paper's overall cultural news report. Mr. Rich has been at the paper since 1980, when he was named chief theater critic. Beginning in 1994, he became an Op-Ed columnist, and in 1999 he became the first Times columnist to write a regular double-length column for the Op-Ed page.From 1999-2003, he additionally served as Senior Writer for The New York Times Magazine. The dual title was a first for The Times and allowed Mr. Rich to explore a variety of topics at greater length than before. His columns and articles in each venue have drawn from his background as a theater critic and observer of art, entertainment and politics.In addition to his work at The Times, Mr. Rich has written about culture and politics for many other publications. His childhood memoir, "Ghost Light," was published in 2000 by Random House and as a Random House Trade Paperback in 2001. The film rights to Ghost Light have been acquired by Storyline Entertainment. A collection of Mr. Rich's drama reviews, "Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993," was published by Random House in October 1998. His book, "The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson," co-authored with Lisa Aronson, was published by Knopf in 1987. Before joining The Times, Mr. Rich was a film and television critic at Time magazine. Earlier, he had been film critic for the New York Post and film critic and senior editor of New Times magazine. He was a founding editor of the Richmond (Va.) Mercury, a weekly newspaper, in the early 1970's. Born on June 2, 1949, in Washington, D.C., Mr. Rich is a graduate of its public schools. He earned a B.A. degree in American History and Literature graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1971. At Harvard, he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson, an honorary Harvard College scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship. Mr. Rich has two sons. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the author and novelist Alex Witchel, who is a reporter for The New York Times. Video clips at Ustream