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Jonathan Dube is an award-winning print and online journalist and a pioneer in the online journalism world.

He currently serves as the President of the international Online News Association
Online News Association

The Online News Association , founded in 1999, is an organization made up of more than 1,700 members. Most of the members are professional online journalists....
 and 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.

He's been described as "a web reporting pioneer" by The Poynter Institute, "a major figure in the online-news business" by Editor & Publisher
Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher is a monthly journal covering the North American newspaper industry. It is based in New York City. E&P calls itself "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry" and describes itself on its website as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including busin...
 and "one of the first journalists to use an online (blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
) journal" by The New York Times
The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
.

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

Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated area Jefferson County, Colorado, Colorado, United States.The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton, Colorado city limits and half a mile south of the Denver, Colorado city/county line....
 shooting and the World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization is an international organization designed to supervise and Free trade international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international org...
 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.






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Jonathan Dube is an award-winning print and online journalist and a pioneer in the online journalism world.

He currently serves as the President of the international Online News Association
Online News Association

The Online News Association , founded in 1999, is an organization made up of more than 1,700 members. Most of the members are professional online journalists....
 and 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.

He's been described as "a web reporting pioneer" by The Poynter Institute, "a major figure in the online-news business" by Editor & Publisher
Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher is a monthly journal covering the North American newspaper industry. It is based in New York City. E&P calls itself "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry" and describes itself on its website as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including busin...
 and "one of the first journalists to use an online (blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
) journal" by The New York Times
The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
.

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

Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated area Jefferson County, Colorado, Colorado, United States.The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton, Colorado city limits and half a mile south of the Denver, Colorado city/county line....
 shooting and the World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization is an international organization designed to supervise and Free trade international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international org...
 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. In February 2000, he and ABC News correspondent Brian Ross (journalist)
Brian Ross (journalist)

Brian Elliot Ross is an American investigative correspondent for ABC News. He has been with ABC News since July 1994. From 1974 until 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News....
 jointly broke the news online of the arrest of a hacker known as "Mafiaboy
MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Calce, a high school student from the middle-class suburban area of the West Island in Montreal, Canada who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN....
" 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. The site is now published in partnership with the Online News Association
Online News Association

The Online News Association , founded in 1999, is an organization made up of more than 1,700 members. Most of the members are professional online journalists....
, for whom he serves on the board of directors as president. In addition, he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Citizen Media and is a founding member of the Media Bloggers Association
Media Bloggers Association

The Media Bloggers Association is a United States membership-based, non-Partisan voluntary association describing its activity as "supporting the development of 'blogging' or 'citizen journalism' as a distinct form of mass media"....
.

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.

He's also worked as the Director of Digital Media for CBC News, the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
; the editorial director for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
's award-winning website, CBC.ca; technology editor and managing producer for MSNBC.com
Msnbc.com

Msnbc.com is the most-visited online news website in the United States, owned and operated by NBC Universal and Microsoft as a joint venture....
; and a freelancer for The New York Times.

A native New Yorker, Dube has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut, Connecticut....
 in Middleton, Conn., and a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is a journalism school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D....
, where 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 World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization is an international organization designed to supervise and Free trade international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international org...
 protests in Seattle. He has also won four online journalism awards and two investigative reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists

The Society of Professional Journalists , formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States....
, 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 Awards to Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada....
 Awards.

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

Published Works

  • "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 "," by Jan Winburn (Bedford Books, 2003).


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