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About Jon
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A lifelong Rhode Islander, Jonathan Rubin is a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. His worked has appeared in Slate Magazine (where he currently interns), the Chicago Red Eye, The Chicago Defender, and elsewhere.
Previously, he worked as the editor and managing editor of the Jewish Voice & Herald, a biweekly statewide newspaper in Rhode Island that he helped found.
While there, he also worked as a reporter, photojournalist, copyeditor, art director and other positions. His work has won awards in reporting and photography from the New England Press Association and the American Jewish Press Association.
Jon is web producer of the Chicago Methods Reporter, and also author of its blog “It Came From Craigslist.”
He enjoys writing about just about anything (except perhaps business or abstract math), and is particularly fond of religion, philosophy, art, mythology, social services, and science and technology.
In his downtime, Jon enjoys reading 20th century classics, watching samurai / zombie movies, cartoons and graphic novels (a.k.a. comics), jogging, the occasional magazine and the “Golden Years” of the Simpsons (seasons 1-8, or thereabouts).
He is allergic to cats and egos.
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