He is the former executive editor of the Asbury Park Press, and creator of DataUniverse.com, a public records site used by multiple Gannett newspapers.
[1] In October 1981, D'Ambrosio joined the Asbury Park Press as a reporter responsible for covering Jackson Township, New Jersey.
[1] D'Ambrosio works in a field of journalism called computer-assisted reporting, which uses various programs to analyze government data.
DataUniverse contains more than two dozen databases from crime records to property sale information, and garners about 1 million page views a week.
[9] "Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush" (2009), which D'Ambrosio edited and co-wrote, was named a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.