Jonathan Dube is an award-winning leader and pioneer in digital media. He has served twice as President of the Online News Association and run major media sites in two countries: AOL News and ABCNews.com in the U.S. and
CBC.ca in Canada. He is also the founder and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, a site about how technology is transforming the media.
He's been described as "a major figure in the online news business" by Editor & Publisher magazine and "a web reporting pioneer" by The Poynter Institute. Among his accomplishments, he was an early pioneer in TV-Web convergence and the first journalist to use the blog format on a news site.
During his career, he has managed national news, sports and finance sites, as well as more than a dozen local sites. In his present role as Senior Vice President and General Manger for AOL News & Information, he manages more than a dozen sites spanning everything from politics to ultimate fighting. Previously, he served as the VP & GM of ABCNews.com, the senior digital media executive
for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news division and Managing Producer of MSNBC.com. He has also written for publications ranging from The New York Times to the Columbia Journalism Review.
Among his many individual honors, he won the Online News Association's first Breaking News Award in 2000 for his coverage of the World Trade Organization protests. He also helped lead ABCNews.com, CBC.ca and MSNBC.com to numerous digital media awards. He has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism, which awarded him its first-ever New Media Award.
