Donald W. Pine
Media Executive, Editor, Reporter
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For the last two years he has worked in the Balkans for international NGOs, reorganizing a daily newspaper, giving seminars on investigative reporting and leading investigative team projects.
Until February 2001, Don Pine was the Director of News Operations for APBnews.com the award winning journalism site devoted to crime, justice and safety issues. Pine syndicated APB's content to media partners including AOL, MSNBC, Yahoo and NBCi.
Pine developed a free content distribution system that easily incorporated new partners and their needs, and thereby quickly increased APB's user audience. On the technical side, he created a backend application to produce APB news stories in any format demanded by partners, and married it with an editing desk that customized content to individual partners' user profiles.
Prior to joining APBnews, Pine created the News and Information Research Center at the Associated Press, and served as its director. From AP's Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, Pine's 20-person staff produced research on deadline from databases, the Internet and other electronic tools and distributed it via a web-based research request system, developed in-house, that linked AP's bureaus around the world.
Pine has worked as a reporter, editor and media executive for the past 20 years. Just out of the University of Southern California, he wrote theater reviews for The Hollywood Reporter for $5 a story.
For the next 10 years he took a "60s sabbatical." He drove a cab in Boston, and worked as a lumberjack, log home builder, carpenter, plumber and fisherman on the coast of Maine while he lived in a small camp overlooking Englishman's Bay.
Back in California Pine continued his journalism career by freelancing and taking a staff job at a Los Angeles beach city weekly. There he began using the rudiments of early computer-assisted journalism to do investigative projects, and eventually became the paper's editor. He was also a finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb business journalism awards.
He moved on to dailies at the Alameda Newspaper Group and the Oakland Tribune in Northern California where he won the California Newspaper Association's highest public service award.
Pine returned to management when he came to the Associated Press in New York to create a worldwide research center for AP's executive editor. When he came to the dot-com world in 1999 with APBnews.com, he had the chance to combine his previous work as an editor, computer-tech and manager in developing syndication for the Web.
Since a post-college trip to Europe, Pine has maintained a passion for BMW motorcycles and speaking French. He remains fluent in both. On the coast of Maine he found a continuing passion for flying after buying a 1946 Ercoupe 415C.
In New York, where he currently lives in Hell's Kitchen, Pine took up boxing. He is one of the few over-fifty boxers at his local gym.