David Skok leaves Global News for Boston Globe
After 10 years with Global News, David Skok, director of digital news, is leaving to join the Boston Globe as a digital adviser to the editor.
After 10 years with Global News, David Skok, director of digital news, is leaving to join the Boston Globe as a digital adviser to the editor.
According to Skok’s biography, he co-created the GlobalNews.ca network in 2009. He was a 2012 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University, the first digital journalist in Canada selected for the program, and the author of Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruption in Journalism. Skok began his career at ABC’s Nightline and joined Global News in 2003.
Very sad to be leaving @Globaltvnews after 10 glorious years, but excited to be joining @GlobeMcGrory and the talented @BostonGlobe team.
— David Skok (@dskok) November 26, 2013
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In a memo announcing Skok’s departure, senior director of online and current affairs Ron Waksman said much of Globalnews.ca’s success “can be attributed to David’s vision and the direction he provided to his talented team.”
“As David said when he told me about the news, there is never a perfect time for goodbye, but it does seem like the right time to bring on new leadership,” Waksman added. “Over the next few weeks we will launch an extensive search for the best possible candidate to succeed him as the new director of Globalnews.ca. In the interim, the online team will carry on its good work under the existing management structure.”
I hired David Skok in 2006 as the first Global News web producer. Today, I wish him tremendous success in his new job at the Boston Globe.
— Ron Waksman (@rwaksmanglobal) November 26, 2013
According to a memo published on Jim Romenesko’s blog, Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory said Skok will start his new position on Jan. 20
“David will play a key role in our upcoming push to further define our two brands — bg.com as a broader, more ambitious site that better reflects the creative journalism of the Globe, and a redesigned boston.com as a sharper, edgier site with a strong news spine,” McGrory said. “He’ll work with the entire room to help develop even bolder ways to tell our stories online, and to tailor story-telling for a mobile viewership.”
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Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.