Ron Donoho

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Ron Donoho
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist, media executive
Website junketsandjaunts.com

Ron Donoho is an American journalist and media executive. He is the founder/editor of the offbeat JunketsAndJaunts.com travel site and the author of the "Junkets & Jaunts" travel book. He is the former editor of San Diego Magazine , [1] San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine and SanDiego.com. [2] He has served as editor of San Diego CityBeat . From 2014 to 2015, he served as Chief Content Officer at the Lucy Burns Institute, the nonprofit organization that publishes Ballotpedia and Judgepedia. [3]

Career

Donoho served as executive editor of San Diego Magazine for twelve years. He was laid off from that position in 2008. [4] In 2009, Donoho launched sandiegoDTOWN.com, a website that covered happenings in downtown San Diego. The website was eventually acquired by SanDiego.com. Donoho went on to serve as editor-in-chief of SanDiego.com before becoming the website's chief editorial officer in 2010. In 2011, Donoho joined McKinnon Publishing as editor of its subsidiary, San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine. [5] In May 2014, he joined the Lucy Burns Institute, publisher of Ballotpedia and Judgepedia, as Chief Content Officer. [3] In 2015, Donoho became editor of San Diego CityBeat.

Donoho is the recipient of over 40 awards from the San Diego Press Club and Society of Professional Journalists. [6] Donoho previously contributed to NBCSanDiego.com. [7] Donoho is the co-author of the book The Coronado Company: The True Story of Surfers, Smugglers, and Marijuana. The Cornado Company is the subject of a film, Coronado High, directed by George Clooney. [8] In 2013, Donoho was one of ten national finalists in a Ron Burgundy look-alike contest. [9]

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