Jonathan Dube
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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.
He currently serves as the editorial director for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning website, CBC.ca.
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 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. 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. 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 second vice 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.
Dube writes a Web Tips column for and occasionally teaches at The Poynter Institute, the premier professional training institute for journalists. He's also worked as technology editor and managing producer for MSNBC.com.
A native New Yorker, Dube has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn., 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.
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[edit] 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.
While at MSNBC.com, the site won every major online journalism award, from National Press Club Awards to Edward R. Murrow Awards.
[edit] 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
- "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).
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Mafiaboy Arrested", ABCNews.com, 4-18-2000.
- ^ "Audio: Mafiaboy Arrest", ABC News Radio, 4-18-2000.
