NBC/NJ Embeds, Off To The Races

September 12, 2007

Well, it looks like the MSNBC-NBC-National Journal reporters embedded on the 2008 campaign trail have started filing dispatches. The team of caffeinated political scribes is covering “Decision 2008” full-time now, each serving as their own mobile campaign bureau.

While several posts have been spotted on MSNBC's First Read political blog, these crackerjack campaign watchers will soon be filing video, audio and text reports while canvassing the country with the candidates.

A few recent dispatches from embeds:
Hillary Clinton picks up National Association of Letter Carriers endorsement.
Barack Obama lays out Iraq withdrawal plan.
Rudy Giuliani's campaign alters Web site in memory of 9/11.
Fred Thompson's campaign lashes out against Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney commemorates the sixth anniversary of 9/11.

So far, the bylines I've seen are Aswini Anburajan, Matthew Berger, Athena Jones, Erin McPike and Adam Aigner-Treworgy. Good luck gang -- and don't forget to sleep and eat.

Juliana Gruenwald

Tech Writer

E-Mail: jgruenwald@nationaljournal.com.

Juliana Gruenwald has been covering tech and telecom issues for more than a decade for National Journal, Interactive Week, BNA and Congressional Quarterly. This is her second stint with National Journal. She was recruited by NJ in 1998 to help launch its first tech policy publication, Technology Daily. She left in 2000 to cover international tech and telecom issues for Ziff Davis Media's Interactive Week magazine. She started her career at United Press International as the wire service's first Helen Thomas Intern. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. A Minneapolis native, she misses the lakes but not the cold.

Josh Smith

Tech Reporter

E-Mail: joshsmith@nationaljournal.com.

Josh Smith covers technology policy as a staff reporter for National Journal. He previously interned at National Journal Daily, a Senate press office, and the Deseret News in Salt Lake City where he covered the state legislature, courts, and crime. In 2009 he graduated with honors from Southern Utah University after managing an award-winning student newspaper as editor-in-chief. Josh has received state, regional and national awards for his political and policy reporting, including first place in CapitolBeat’s 2009 Best of Statehouse Reporting college competition. A native of drop-dead-gorgeous Utah, Josh lives in Virginia with his wife, Amber.

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