Jake Dobkin
American journalist and blogger
Jacob "Jake" Dobkin is an American journalist, blogger, author, and co-founder of Gothamist. He is currently a director of New York Public Radio.
Biography
Dobkin is a native of New York City and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, attended Binghamton University, and graduated from Columbia University in 1998. He also received an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business in 2005.
Dobkin worked as an IT consultant when he co-founded the blog Gothamist in 2003 with his Columbia classmate, Jen Chung. He left his job to work for the blog full-time in 2005. In 2007 and 2008, he and Chung were named one of "New York's coolest tech people" by Business Insider.
He once criticized The New York Times prior to a panel with media critic David Carr, calling the paper's “old-fashioned reporting” out-of-touch with a younger generation of readers. New York magazine and Gawker claimed that his comments sabotaged the company's supposedly successful acquisition by James L. Dolan's media company Cablevision.
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