Interestingly, the NYT article on this fellow tells us all about his background -- except for the fact that he worked for Howard Dean last year and is therefore a liberal political operative. "All the News That's Fit to Print."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/technology/07press.html
From his own website:
Garrett Graff is vice president of communications at EchoDitto, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based technology consulting firm. A Vermont native, he served formerly as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean's first webmaster. In college, he was a news writer and executive editor at the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University's daily newspaper, where he wrote more news articles than any other writer in half-a-century and held internships at ABCNews' Political Unit and at the Atlantic Monthly. He is also a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology.
Great, one more lib in the press room!