Jacob "Jake" Dobkin[1] is an American journalist, blogger, author, and co-founder of Gothamist.
[2][3] Dobkin is a native of New York City and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
[7] Dobkin worked as an IT consultant when he co-founded the blog Gothamist in 2003 with his Columbia classmate, Jen Chung.
[12][13][14][15] In 2017, Gothamist was purchased by DNAinfo, founded by conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts, and Dobkin was kept to run the blog.
[18] WNYC announced in 2018 that it has pooled the resources to buy the blog and hired Dobkin and Chung.