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Maegan Carberry is a digital media strategist and commentator who
blogs about politics, media, technology and the so-called spoiled Millennial
Generation at www.maegancarberry.com. Her work has appeared on HuffPost, CauseCast and Editor & Publisher. She also co-hosts the online radio show, Wilshire & Washington with Variety Managing Editor Ted Johnson and conservative blogger Teresa Valdez Klein. Beyond the netroots, she is communications manager for the Energy Action Coalition in Washington DC. Follow Maegan on Twitter at http://twitter.com/maegancarberry.


Previously, she was Arianna Huffington's chief of staff, where she ran the west coast offices of The Huffington Post, and she worked with the Obama for America communications and new media team during the California primary election campaign. She has also been an advertising sales executive at The Los Angeles Times and a reporter and columnist for The Chicago
Tribune's RedEye edition. She has a masters degree in journalism and
media management from Northwestern University and a bachelors degree
in political science from UCLA.

Blog Entries by Maegan Carberry

The 2020 Project: At the Intersection of Identity Politics & Pop Culture

Posted January 19, 2010 | 11:59 AM (EST)


When Barack Obama was elected president, many prematurely proclaimed it marked the beginning of a post-racial America. One could argue that Millennials are the most cohesive generation in our nation's history to date, however it's clear that there is much work to do in the effort to secure equal opportunities...

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The 2020 Project: Can Millennials Dismantle Political Parties?

Posted January 14, 2010 | 08:25 AM (EST)


One of the pivotal questions facing Millennials in the next decade will be which political party captures the devotion of our generation.

Some have declared that the election of Barack Obama was a sign that The Progressive Majority has arrived, and that it will only grow exponentially as our...

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The 2020 Project: How a Brazen Generation Becomes Entrepreneurial

Posted January 11, 2010 | 03:06 PM (EST)


The new decade is underway, and as we start breaking our 2010 resolutions - Don't know about you, but I've only been to the gym twice so far! - I have the perfect kick in the ass we all need to stick to those big, lofty ideals we

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The 2020 Project: What's Your Perfect Vision for the Next Decade?

9 Comments | Posted January 4, 2010 | 12:11 AM (EST)


If you stayed awake all night on Nov. 7, 2000, in a state of disbelief that exploded on Sept. 11, 2001, and persevered through the subsequent defiling of our nation's core to rise again, hopeful, on Nov. 4, 2008, then today is one of the best days of your life....

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Did Carr's Column Mark the End of Manhattan's Journalistic Reign?

2 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 01:42 AM (EST)


If you managed to power through your Turkey Coma and found yourself up tweeting into the night on Sunday, you undoubtedly encountered rave reviews and quotes from David Carr's "The Fall and Rise of Media" piece in the New York Times.

The Columnist Himself was notably perplexed by the...

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How Jon Stewart Killed Barackstar

16 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 02:11 AM (EST)


Apparently, losses yesterday in New Jersey and Virginia mean that the Progressive Majority James Carville predicted -- built a year ago on the backs of Obama's zealous Facebooking young voters -- has nose dived one year after the country's historic election. For those who don't put much weight, however, on...

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Skyscrapers vs. Sunshine: A Bicoastal Craig's List Tale of Two Cities

4 Comments | Posted October 16, 2009 | 03:08 AM (EST)


I was supposed to be relishing the city sounds and skyscrapers, but her f*ing framed photos of crashing waves and the two surfboards crammed in the corner of the studio apartment were an unsavory reminder that I was not, in fact, in my own home. Even his arms around me...

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Millennial Mourning: Tweeting, Facebooking & Appreciating Ted Kennedy

Posted August 26, 2009 | 02:58 PM (EST)


As America mourns the loss of legendary senator Ted Kennedy, I can't help but marvel over the way that technology has affected the way we mourn his passing, and the generational gap this difference illustrates.

For example, here is how the news played out in my personal Millennial sphere of...

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The Abandonment of Generation Obama?

43 Comments | Posted August 18, 2009 | 06:54 PM (EST)


This commentary was originally published on CauseCast.org.

As Congress' August recess drags and the media clings to every twist and turn of the White House's pimping of so-called health care reform, I am routinely asked why people my age are so quiet and unwilling to do any field organizing...

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Is Obama's Health Care Maelstrom the Birth of Millennial Politics?

20 Comments | Posted August 5, 2009 | 05:03 PM (EST)


For a nation enmeshed in a generational and technological realignment, it's not shocking that doubts have begun to surface about the viability of our unprecedented president's vision for a new American era. As casual citizens and politicos terrified for years by threats of violence, economic collapse and moral certitude cling...

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How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

5 Comments | Posted August 4, 2009 | 01:24 PM (EST)


This commentary was originally posted at CauseCast.org.

If you Google the "demise of journalism," some 718,000 results will appear detailing the transition of consumers to the Internet, the decline of advertising revenue, the hacking of newsroom editorial staffs, the artificial knowledge of crowd-sourced information, and the collective threat...

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DC's Changetastic Makeover: Myth or Reality?

Posted July 14, 2009 | 11:43 PM (EST)


I knew back in January traipsing around the nation's capitol in my stiletto gold heels while my exposed toes froze that Change City would not sustain its hyper-festive jubilee beyond the inaugural hullabaloo. With all my bicoastal coming and going between New York and Los Angeles most of this year,...

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How Twitter Will Realize Obama's Bipartisan Vision

Posted June 29, 2009 | 08:21 AM (EST)


As we kick off today's Personal Democracy Forum, in which political high-rollers from both sides of the aisle will gather in New York to discuss how new media has altered our political process, I'm compelled to revisit the topic of heightened opportunities for bipartisanship or even post-partisanship within the netroots...

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The Hybrid Media Takeover: LIVE from the #140conf

1 Comments | Posted June 17, 2009 | 11:27 AM (EST)


As I left the 140 Characters Conference (a.k.a. "The Davos of Twitter") yesterday afternoon, I was approached by a lovely suit-by-day-DC-based-lifestyle-blogger-by-night who wanted to chat about the business of blogging. The whimsical tone in her voice implied that her relatively interesting day job was not half as rewarding as...

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Stars! Sex! Murder! Party Like It's 1909.

Posted April 24, 2009 | 01:30 PM (EST)


This past month I've been absolutely riveted reading Paula Uruburu's book about the country's first "it" girl, Evelyn Nesbit, and the murder of her lover, Stanford White in American Eve. (The lover was offed by her insane millionaire husband, Harry Thaw, in 1906 and was a tabloid sensation, complete...

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Memo to Bandwagon Obama Fans: Get Tough!

Posted February 20, 2009 | 02:10 AM (EST)


If I hear one more person declare that Obama's "honeymoon is over" or that the Republican response to the stimulus proves that his quest for a bipartisan America was naïve and ineffectual, I will surely scream. What I'd really like to know is: Where were these wise naysayers circa summer...

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Manners 2.0: A Guide to Technetiquette

Posted February 16, 2009 | 04:42 AM (EST)


I recently needed to move a bed to my house. Alas, I found myself without 1) a large vehicle or 2) a big, strong and obligated boyfriend. So I opted for a solid backup plan: I called my Best Dude Friend and pleaded with his voicemail in hopes that we...

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From Iowa to Inauguration (Vol. 5): A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

Posted January 2, 2009 | 05:02 PM (EST)


This post is the fifth in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

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From Iowa to Inauguration (Vol. 4): A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

Posted January 2, 2009 | 02:33 AM (EST)


This post is the fourth in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

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From Iowa to Inauguration (Vol. 3): A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

Posted December 31, 2008 | 10:17 AM (EST)


This post is the third in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a...

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