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 III The Election and Pop Culture: Strategies for the Broadband, Late Night, Talk & Comedy Television Mo Rocca, Blogger, AOL, contributor to NBC’s “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Ben Relles, founder and CEO of BarelyPolitical.com (Creator Obama Girl) Sarah Bernard, President, 236.com Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder, JibJab Alex Gibney, Writer - Director, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor, TIME.com, Moderator Mo Rocca, Blogger, AOL, contributor to NBC’s “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and CBS’ “Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood”—is known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. A former correspondent for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” he can be heard regularly on NPR's hit weekly quiz show "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me" as well as "All Things Considered." Creator and host of AOL's "Mo Rocca 180°" (www.morocca180.com), Rocca's blog provides side- splitting and insightful observations on everything from the Presidential election to pop culture news. Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder, JibJab: On July 9, 2004, Evan and Gregg Spiridellis released “THIS LAND” and the media revolution they first dreamed of back in Brooklyn was at their doorstep overnight. The video, written by Gregg and animated by Evan, rocketed around the world from inbox to inbox after the brothers emailed a link to the 130,000 people on their fan newsletter. Within days, millions of requests poured in from around the world for their satirical video. As they told Brian Wilson in their first national interview on FOX News, their tiny little web server “spontaneously combusted”. The string of media attention that followed was unprecedented for an Internet video. The Today Show, ABC News, Jay Leno, CNN, FOX, CNBC, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Variety, Los Angeles Times and hundreds of other media outlets from around the world covered the story. By the end of the election, JibJab’s election videos were more than 80 million times online on every continent, including Antarctica. American soldiers had emailed the brothers to tell them they were watching the video from within Saddam Hussein’s old palace. NASA had even contacted the brothers for permission to send a copy of the animation to the International Space Station. Then, on December 31, 2004, Peter Jennings named the Spiridellis brothers “People of the Year” on ABC's World News Sarah Bernard, President, 23/6: Sarah Bernard is the President of 23/6 (236.com), a new comedic news co-production from IAC and The Huffington Post. In this role, she is responsible for the development, operations and management of the company. Previously, she served as General Manager for HuffingtonPost.com since its launch in May of 2005. From 2000 to 2005, Ms. Bernard held various roles at AOL, Inc., most recently as Vice President of Program Strategy & Promotion charged with audience growth for AOL’s media business. Before that position, she served as Vice President & General Manager of AOL for Small Business, overseeing the launch and ongoing business strategy, programming and product development for AOL’s first line extension. Ms. Bernard was first recruited to AOL for advertising sales development, where she led technology and consumer electronics sales strategies across Time Warner’s interactive properties. Prior to joining AOL, Ms. Bernard was a Director at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where she was responsible for guiding business and product development for washingtonpost.com’s recruitment classifieds property, washingtonjobs.com. Ms. Bernard began her career in advertising, where she held account management roles at both TBWA/Chiat/Day and Ketchum Advertising agencies. Ms. Bernard sits on the board of Page73 Productions, and holds a BA in English from UCLA and an MBA from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU. Ben Relles, founder and CEO of BarelyPolitical.com (Creator Obama Girl): Ben was born in Wisconsin and raised in Philadelphia. After college, Ben co-founded MarketVision where he was a partner from 1997 - 2002. Later, Ben received his MBA from the Wharton School, and has spent time working for Omnicom agencies. As the CEO of Barelypolitical.com, Ben launched his political satire site with the hit video "I Got a Crush on Obama." He has spoken at dozens of influential conferences including Forbes MEET, Streaming Media East, has guest lectured on college campuses nationwide and appears regularly on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Alex Gibney wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. His film Taxi to the Dark Side (ThinkFilm), a documentary murder mystery examining the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2008. His most recent film was Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. He also served as executive producer on the dramatic feature Love Comes Lately. Gibney is now at work on two other films: For Participant Media, Magnolia Pictures and Reason Pictures, he is directing and writing Casino Jack, a look at lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the selling of the American government. For Optimum Releasing and Thinkfilm, he is directing and producing Magic Bus, a time-travel immersion experience of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, on their infamous road-trip to the 1964 World's Fair. He is also working on two fiction projects: a film (part documentary, part fiction) of My Trip to Al Qaeda, a play by Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and he is writing a script based on David Halberstam's book, The Best and the Brightest. Other films by Gibney include: No End in Sight (Executive Producer); Mr. Untouchable (Producer), Who Killed the Electric Car (Consulting Producer); The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Writer/Producer); Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Producer); Lightning in a Bottle (Producer); Wim Wenders` Soul of a Man (Producer) and Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues (Producer). Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor, TIME.com: As managing editor of TIME.com, Josh Tyrangiel oversees TIME’s daily news site, which draws more than 5 million unique visitors a month and in February 2007 was named “Website of the Year” by the Magazine Publishers of America. Tyrangiel joined TIME in 1999 as a staff writer and music critic, and was named managing editor of TIME.com and assistant managing editor of TIME in September 2006. He continues to write about the music industry. Tyrangiel has written cover stories on Bono, Kanye West, the Dixie Chicks and Bruce Springsteen, as well as articles about politics, international relations, food, academia and sports. He has interviewed and profiled former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, and Oscar winners Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman and George Clooney. Tyrangiel has also twice served on the panel of judges for the influential Shortlist Music Prize. Prior to his arrival at TIME, Tyrangiel was a producer at MTV News. He also wrote for Rolling Stone and Vibe. Tyrangiel received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. in American Studies at Yale.