Jonathan Dube is a digital media executive. He currently serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager, AOL News & Information. Dube leads the News content division, which includes the AOL News, Technology, Finance, and Sports groups. He previously served as the Vice President in charge of ABCNews.com, responsible for the strategic planning, business strategy, editorial content, and production of the network's 24-hour online news service. Dube has served twice as President of the international

Online News Association The Online News Association (ONA), founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Washington D.C., United States. It is the world's largest association of digital journalists, with more than 2,000 members. The majority of ON ...

and currently serves on ONA's Board of Directors. He's been described as "a web reporting pioneer" by The

Poynter Institute The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the ''Tampa Bay Times'' newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Netw ...

, "a major figure in the online-news business" by

Editor & Publisher ''Editor & Publisher'' (''E&P'') is an American monthly trade news magazine covering the newspaper industry. Published since 1901, ''Editor & Publisher'' is the self-described "bible of the newspaper industry." Originally based in New York City, ...

and "one of the first journalists to use an online (

blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...

) journal" by

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

. In 1998, while working at The Charlotte Observer, he helped write a Weblog covering Hurricane Bonnie in 1998, the first time a news site used the Weblog format to cover breaking news. As a national producer for

ABCNEWS ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include morning news-talk show '' Good Morning America'', '' ...

.com, he was one of the first true multimedia reporters, covering stories such as the

Columbine High School Columbine High School (CHS) is a public high school in Columbine, Colorado, United States, in the Denver metropolitan area. It is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools district. In 1999, it became the scene of an infamous mass shoot ...

shooting and the

World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...

protests in

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region o ...

by shooting digital photos and video, creating interactive graphics, filing reports for ABC Radio and working with ABC News correspondents and producers. In February 2000, he and ABC News correspondent Brian Ross (journalist) jointly broke the news online of the arrest of a hacker known as "

Mafiaboy Michael Calce (born 1984, also known as MafiaBoy) is a security expert and former computer hacker from Île Bizard, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites, inc ...

" for attacks that took down major Web sites, such as Yahoo and CNN. It was one of the first times a major online news site broke an investigative story online and one of the earliest examples of joint reporting by an online and network TV journalist. In 2000, Dube founded CyberJournalist.net, a site about how technology is transforming journalism. In addition, he serves on the board of the Online Publishers Association, the advisory board of the Center for Citizen Media and is a founding member of the Media Bloggers Association. Dube writes a Web Tips column for The

, the premier professional training institute for journalists, and has served as visiting faculty for the institute. He has also worked as the Director of Digital Media for CBC News, the news division of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the governmen ...

; the editorial director for

's award-winning website, CBC.ca; technology editor and managing producer for MSNBC.com; and a freelancer for The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dube has a bachelor's degree from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

in Middletown, Conn., and a master's degree in journalism from the

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism ...

, where he lived with George Miller (now a Temple University journalism professor) and Doug Black. He studied new media and now serves on the school's Annual Fund Committee.

Awards

Dube won the first national Online Journalism Award for Breaking News for his coverage of the

protests in Seattle. He has also won four online journalism awards and two investigative reporting awards from the

Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, letter ...

, as well as the first-ever new media award from Columbia University. While at MSNBC.com, the site won every major online journalism award, from

National Press Club Organizations A press club is an organization for journalists and others professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news. A press club whose membership is defined by the press of a given country may be known as a National Pre ...

Awards to

Edward R. Murrow Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe f ...

Awards. At the CBC, he led the company's website to every major online award in Canada, including multiple RTNDA Canada Awards, an EPpy Award and the Canadian New Media Award.

Published works

Web Tips column for The Poynter Institute, 2001 to present

"Why I went from the Web to Print - and Back Again," The Columbia Journalism Review, July 1999

"Writing News Online," Poynter.org, July 13, 2003
* "A life in journalism," essay in "Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century," a journalism textbook by Christopher Scanlan (Oxford University Press, 1999). * "Writing News Online," chapter in
Shop talk & war stories: Journalists examine their profession
" by Jan Winburn (Bedford Books, 2003).

References

External links

CyberJournalist.net

ONA website
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