Dan Kloeffler

Dan Kloeffler (b. 1976) is an American television journalist. He has worked as an anchor on WSTM-TV, MSNBC, and, currently, ABC News.

Early life

Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in Algonac, Michigan, in 1994. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1999.

Career

Formerly an anchor on MSNBC, a cable news network, Kloeffler anchored overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as First Look and on NBC's Early Today. He joined MSNBC from WSTM-TV in Syracuse, New York in 2007 and left the network in 2009.^[1]

In 2010 Dan became a freelance anchor and correspondent for ABC News. He has been anchoring on the ABC News Now channel.^[2]

Personal life

In response to the news that actor Zachary Quinto had come out as gay, Kloeffler publicly came out on the air in October 2011.^[3] In a statement on the ABC News website, he wrote that a series of suicides by gay youth also led him to hope his being publicly gay would help encourage young gay people struggling to accept themselves.^[4]

He lives in New York City, New York.

References

1. ^ "Inside Cable News :: Dan Kloeffler joins MSNBC…? :: March :: 2006". Insidecable.blogsome.com. http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/03/31/dan-kloeffler-joins-msnbc/. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
2. ^ "Dan Kloeffler". LinkedIn. 2001-09-11. http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankloeffler. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
3. ^ Zachary Quinto Inspires ABC News Anchor to Come Out on Air
4. ^ Kloeffler, Dan (2011-10-17). "To Boldly Go…". ABC News Blogs > Lifestyle > Advice (ABC News). http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/10/to-boldly-go/. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 

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