Hi. I’m Dan, and I’m a reporter, entrepreneur, lover of start-ups, frequent troublemaker and creator of awesome stuff. Not to bury the lede or anything, but I also really like stories.
My current focus is Stry.us [pronounced STOHR-ee], a nimble news startup I founded in 2010. Right now, I’m leading a team of six on a summer-long reporting project in the Ozarks. In 2011-12, I grew Stry.us through my work as a Reynolds Fellow out at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
I’m also the creator of BooksAround, a social literacy experiment; JStart, a wiki of resources for entrepreneurial journalists; and Very Quotatious, a site for inspiration, thought and other wisdom suitable for quotation.
Also: I’m taking on my father this year in $1,000, loser-pays competition called the Belly Challenge. And I’m an occasional contributor to the Agency Post.
I’ve even survived a TED talk (see above), an Ignite talk and an ESPN Radio appearance.
And on top of all that: I’m the creator of all sorts of stuff that didn’t take off, mostly because I didn’t do enough to make it go. ReadsGood, an essay editing service for college applicants; and @alanmoe, a daily deals character, come to mind. (Meanwhile, my blog about my quasi-unthethered life — Smartphoneless.com — died when I, quite tragically, bought a smartphone.)
It’s also worth mentioning that in a previous life, I just focused on reporting. I’ve worked for news organizations like KENS-TV in San Antonio and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and I’ve spent time at States News Service, the Nantucket Independent, the Business Gazette of Montgomery County (MD), the Washington Examiner and CBS News Radio. I got my start in reporting as a stringer for The Sports Network, first covering the Washington Redskins, and later, the Washington Nationals.
As for schooling: I earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2009.
This is the part of the about me section where I tell you that, yes, I am tall, but no, I do not play basketball. I also do not know what the weather is like up here.
If I was a data set, I would look like this.
