Jonathan Jones Bio

Jonathan Jones is a print and video reporter with more than five years of daily news experience and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

After graduation, he covered religious, ethnic and cultural issues in Fremont, California, for ANG Newspapers and the MediaNews Group.

In August 2006, he was presented with the 2006 American Muslim Voice Media Award “in appreciation of providing all dimensions of a story and searching for the truth” for his coverage of the American Muslim community.

In 2004, he reported from Uganda, filing election dispatches for Frontline/World and investigated the war in northern Uganda for the Oakland Tribune and ANG Newspapers.

In December 2004, he spent one month in a city garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to report on child garbage scavengers for the Washingtonpost.com.

Three weeks after the 2004 Asian tsunami, he traveled to eastern Sri Lanka to investigate the impact of the tsunami on the country’s ongoing civil war, reporting from government and rebelled-controlled areas for Frontline/World.

He returned to Sri Lanka one year later to examine the disparities in tsunami aid distribution in Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim communities, producing a series of print articles supplemented by videos for ANG Newspapers and the Oakland Tribune.

He was a contributing author to the book, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongly Convicted, and a researcher and fact-checker for the PBS Frontline documentary, “News War: What’s Happening to the News?”

anna @ January 17, 2007