Jonathan Dube is an award-winning print and online journalist and a pioneer in the online journalism world.
He's been described as a "a web reporting pioneer" by The Poynter Institute, "a major figure in the online-news business" by Editor & Publisher and "one of the first journalists to use an online (blog) journal" by The New York Times. The Poynter Institute is a school and resource for journalism located in St Editor & Publisher (E&P is a monthly Journal covering the North American Newspaper industry A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of
He currently serves as the President of the international Online News Association and the Director of Digital Media for CBC News, the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Online News Association (ONA founded in 1999 is an organization made up of more than 1000 members
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. This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American com, he was a true multimedia reporter, covering stories such as the Columbine High School shooting and the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle by shooting digital photos and video, creating interactive graphics, filing reports for ABC Radio and working with ABC News correspondents and producers. Columbine High School is a Secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. 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" for attacks that took down major Web sites, such as Yahoo and CNN. Brian Elliot Ross (born October 23, 1948) is an American investigative correspondent for ABC News. MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Calce, a High school student from the upscale area of the West Island in Montreal, Canada 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. [1] [2]
In 2000, Dube founded CyberJournalist. net, a site about how technology is transforming journalism. The site is now published in partnership with the Online News Association, for whom he serves on the board of directors as president. The Online News Association (ONA founded in 1999 is an organization made up of more than 1000 members In addition, he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Citizen Media and is a founding member of the Media Bloggers Association. The Media Bloggers Association ( MBA) is a United States membership-based non- partisan Voluntary association describing its activity as "supporting
Dube writes a Web Tips column for The Poynter Institute, the premier professional training institute for journalists, and has served as visiting faculty for the institute. The Poynter Institute is a school and resource for journalism located in St
He's also worked as the editorial director for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning website, CBC. ca; technology editor and managing producer for MSNBC.com; and a freelancer for The New York Times. Msnbccom is the most-visited online news organization in the U
A native New Yorker, Dube has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn. This article concerns Wesleyan , and a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied new media and now serves on the school's Annual Fund Committee. Academic Programs Columbia’s Journalism School offers three degree programs Master of Science in journalism (full and part-time
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Awards
Dube won the first national Online Journalism Award for Breaking News for his coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. He has also won four online journalism awards and two investigative reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as the first-ever new media award from Columbia University. The Society of Professional Journalists ( SPJ) formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing Journalists in the
While at MSNBC. com, the site won every major online journalism award, from National Press Club Awards to Edward R. Murrow Awards. The National Press Club is one of the world's leading professional organizations for journalists Edward R Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25 1908 &ndash April 27 1965) was an American journalist
At the CBC, he's led the companies website to every major online award in Canada, including multiplke RTNDA Canada Awards 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).
Further reading
- "Blogging Bonnie," The Poynter Institute, Sept. 13, 2003
- "Dube named CBC.ca editorial director," Internal CBC memo published on Poynter.org, June 6, 2005
- "Lucky Dube," Ryerson Review of Journalism, April 24th, 2006
External links
References
- ^ "Mafiaboy Arrested", ABCNews. com, 4-18-2000.
- ^ "Audio: Mafiaboy Arrest", ABC News Radio, 4-18-2000.
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