Jonathan Dube

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 and currently serves on ONA's Board of Directors.

He's been described as "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.

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 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.

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.

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