In his opening remarks at the Online News Association annual conference in Washington DC, ONA president Jonathan Dube described online as a growing, innovative medium, at a time when other mediums are struggling. As the association heads into its 10th year, Dube outlines the priorities – money and members. Attracting more funding and more members is an obvious aim for any professional group. But more significantly, the ONA wants to

Blame technology. According to the Inside the CBC blog, the reason behind CBC.ca was down for much of Thursday 29 May was “a major data storage ‘fallover’ involving all redundancy systems”. Despite the site being down, work continued behind the scenes, as Jonathan Dube of CBC News’ director of digital media explained: What you couldn’t see was that the CBCNews.ca staff continued to write and update dozens more stories all