Dan Kloeffler
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Daniel L. Kloeffler (born January 1, 1976)U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American media consultant and television journalist. In 2010, he became anchor of ABC News Now, a cable-news channel of the ABC broadcasting network.
Early life
Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in Algonac, Michigan, in 1994. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, in 1999.
Career
He worked at WSTM-TV{{spaced ndash}}an NBC-affiliated television station in Syracuse, New York{{spaced ndash}}prior to joining MSNBC, a cable-news channel. While at MSNBC, he anchored overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as MSNBC's First Look and broadcast network NBC's Early Today, both early-morning news programs;{{unreliable source?|date=December 2011|reason=appears to be some unknown person's/entity's blog. what are credentials as a "reliable source"?}} {{cite web |url=http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/03/31/dan-kloeffler-joins-msnbc/ |title=Dan Kloeffler Joins MSNBC...? |publisher=Inside Cable News |date=March 31, 2006 |accessdate=December 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122031231/http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/03/31/dan-kloeffler-joins-msnbc |archivedate=November 22, 2011 }} Kloeffler left MSNBC in 2009.
In 2010, he became a freelance anchor and correspondent for ABC News, anchoring its ABC News Now channel.{{cite web| author = Database | url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankloeffler |title=Dan Kloeffler |publisher= LinkedIn |date= n.d. |accessdate= December 5, 2011}}
Kloeffler later founded The Salt Standard, which provides communication and media training for individuals and organizations.{{cite web|url = https://www.thesaltstandard.com/about|title = About The Salt Standard|accessdate = September 7, 2024}}
Personal life
Kloeffler came out as gay live during a broadcast on October 17th, 2011.{{cite web |last1=Malone |first1=Noreen |title=ABC News's Dan Kloeffler Comes Out on Air |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2011/10/abc_news_dan_kloeffler_comes_o.html |website=Intelligencer (New York Magazine) |publisher=Vox Media |access-date=28 December 2024 |language=en |date=18 October 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Kloeffler |first1=Dan |title=To Boldly Go... |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019001739/abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/10/to-boldly-go/ |website=ABC News Blogs |publisher=ABC News |access-date=28 December 2024 |language=en}}
References
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Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:American LGBTQ journalists
Category:American television news anchors
Category:Journalists from Michigan
Category:Journalists from New York City
Category:LGBTQ people from Michigan
Category:People from Algonac, Michigan
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:University of New Hampshire alumni
Category:Writers from New Hampshire
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