Merritt covered the United States v. Libby trial on '' TalkLeft '' , and with Jane Hamsher and Marcy Wheeler , was among the first bloggers to receive fully accredited media passes to a U.S. federal trial and during which they also appeared on ''PoliticsTV.com '' for a round up summarizing each day 's trial events . Her blog posts on the Lewis " Scooter " Libby trial appeared in '' FireDogLake '' and '' The Huffington Post '' . On August 2 , 2007 , Merritt moderated a panel discussion at the 2007 YearlyKos Convention , featuring Christy Hardin Smith of Jane Hamsher 's '' Firedoglake '' and Marcy Wheeler of '' The Next Hurrah '' , relating their experiences " liveblogging " the Libby trial . The panel also included Sheldon L. Snook , Chief of Staff to the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia , who was " the court official in charge of news media at the Libby trial . " '' TalkLeft '' was accredited as a national blog at the 2008 Democratic National Convention , held in Denver , Colorado , from August 25 through 28 , 2008 , posting photographs of celebrities from both the Pepsi Center and various other convention venues in Denver and cross-links to other bloggers ' reports and photographs . Recently , she has consolidated spaces on '' TalkLeft '' for archived and ongoing discussion board topics such as the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the shooting of Trayvon Martin
2008 Democratic National Convention
2008 Democratic National Convention
Jeralyn Merritt