Paul D'Ambrosio is an American

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

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. He is the former executive editor of the ''

Asbury Park Press The ''Asbury Park Press'', formerly known as the ''Shore Press'', ''Daily Press'', ''Asbury Park Daily Press'', and ''Asbury Park Evening Press'', is the third largest daily newspaper in the state of New Jersey. Established in 1879, it has been o ...

'', and creator of DataUniverse.com, a public records site used by multiple

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newspapers. He is currently a senior editor at

The Marshall Project The Marshall Project is an American nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. The organization's mission is to impact the system through journalism, and states that its goal is to create and sustain a sense of nation ...

Education

D'Ambrosio graduated from the

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. In 2018, he received an M.A. in journalism and strategic communications from the

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Career

Journalism

In October 1981, D'Ambrosio joined the ''

'' as a reporter responsible for covering

Jackson Township, New Jersey Jackson Township is a Township (New Jersey), township in Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A portion of the township is located within the Pinelands National Reserve. As of the 2020 United States census, 2 ...

. He was later promoted to an investigations editor, senior regional news strategist, and director of investigations and news director for the newspaper before becoming the executive editor in 2019. D'Ambrosio works in a field of journalism called

computer-assisted reporting Computer-assisted reporting describes the use of computers to gather and analyze the data necessary to write news stories. The spread of computers, software and the Internet changed how reporters work. Reporters routinely collect information in dat ...

, which uses various programs to analyze government data. An unnamed precursor to DataUniverse was launched in the Spring of 2005 by D'Ambrosio, and the full DataUniverse was launched on the

's website, on December 1, 2006. The site is programmed and maintained by D'Ambrosio. DataUniverse contains more than two dozen databases from crime records to property sale information, and garners about 1 million page views a week. The DataUniverse model has been widely duplicated throughout the Gannett newspaper chain and other news outlets. As both editor and writer, he has won and shared in the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, the National Headliner awards for Public Service and Series Writing, two Associated Press Managing Editors' awards for Public Service, the Clark Mollenhoff Memorial Award for Investigative Reporting, three

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awards for consumer journalism, and three Brechner Freedom of Information awards. "Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush" (2009), which D'Ambrosio edited and co-wrote, was named a finalist for the 2010

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. Pulitzer Prizes
Awards. He was named executive editor of the Press in February 2019 and departed the company in November 2022. He joined The Marshall Project criminal justice news site as senior editor in April 2023.

Selected works

News articles

* ''Vital Signs'' (1996) (D'Ambrosio, Linsk, McEnry, Becker) * ''House of Cards'' (1997–98) (Asbury Park Press Staff) * ''Right to Know Nothing'' (1999) (D'Ambrosio) * ''Profiting from Public Service'' (2003–2004) (D'Ambrosio and Gannett New Jersey staff) * ''Pay to Play'' and '' The Power Brokers'' (2004) (D'Ambrosio, Prado Roberts, and Gannett Staff) * ''Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush'' (2009) (D'Ambrosio, Mikle, Clurfeld, Bates, Mullen)

Novels

* ''Cold Rolled Dead'' (2007), Down the Shore Publishing Inc. * ''Easy Squeezy'' (2013), Down the Shore Publishing Inc.

References

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