Jonathan Dube is the Director of Digital Media for CBC News, the President of the Online News Association and the publisher of CyberJournalist.net. An award-winning print and online journalist, he also writes for and occasionally teaches at The Poynter Institute. Previously, he's worked as MSNBC.com's Managing Producer and a national producer for ABCNews.com.
Jonathan Dube July 20, 2008 9:35 am
The HuffingtonPost.com’s meteoric rise in traffic in the past year has caused a lot of people to take notice. What is it about this blog-based site that has made it so successful?
The site, built on Movable Type blogging software, … Read more
Jonathan Dube Apr. 24, 2008 7:48 pm
Jonathan Dube Apr. 9, 2008 8:24 pm
Online journalism is increasingly playing a role in the Pulitzer Prizes.
The Pulitzers first allowed Web elements to be submitted starting in 1999, when they opened up the Public Service category.
In 2005, a journalist at a weekly newspaper won … Read more
Jonathan Dube Mar. 16, 2008 7:10 pm
New Hampshire Public Radio has spearheaded one of the more ambitious and innovative uses of the Web during the election so far.
The station created a citizen media Web site, Primary Place Online (PPO), as a companion to a year-long … Read more
Jonathan Dube Feb. 24, 2008 12:36 pm
Note: After seven wonderful
years of Web Tips columns, we’re going to broaden our focus from Web-based reporting tools to the variety of ways journalists are
using the Web. We hope you’ll stick with us for Web Tips 2.0.
Jonathan Dube June 26, 2007 8:30 pm
Wondering what new parents really think about co-sleeping and Ferberizing? Or what Harry Potter fans are saying about the possible spoilers circulating around the Internet? Whatever your subject, find out what folks are saying online using Omgili, a relatively new … Read more
Jonathan Dube Apr. 10, 2007 7:38 pm
The increasing popularity of sites that let users submit, save and vote for Web pages they find online means that journalists have great new tools at their fingertips for finding story ideas.
Sites like Digg.com, del.icio.us and YouTube.com should be … Read more
Jonathan Dube Feb. 12, 2007 9:36 pm
The BBC has one of the deepest training departments of any journalism organization in the world. Fortunately, thanks to the generosity of the BBC and British taxpayers, many of the BBC’s training courses are available free online for anyone to … Read more
Jonathan Dube Dec. 17, 2006 10:46 pm
A new site, IraqSlogger.com, offers Iraq news links, original reporting and opinion, and is aiming to be “the world’s premier Iraq-focused information source.”
The site, which officially launches this week, is run by former CNN news chief Eason Jordan … Read more
Jonathan Dube Nov. 7, 2006 9:16 pm
Several researchers have put together an excellent guide to the plethora of public opinion poll Web sites now online.
The guide is one journalists will find particularly useful, as it avoids unscientific online polls and those focused primarily on market … Read more
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