St. Paul Scoop: MySpace Meet-Up

September 1, 2008

Popular social networking destination MySpace teamed up with content swapping site Digg, Rock the Vote and the Impact Film Festival to host a late night party on Sunday at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis. Twin Cities rock band The Alarmists provided an energetic soundtrack for the event, which saluted the Screen Actors Guild. Stuart Townsend (best known to some as Charlize Theron's boyfriend), director of Impact's opening film "Battle In Seattle," was on hand to welcome guests. His docudrama chronicles the events surrounding the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in The Emerald City.

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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