Dan is a content creator dedicated to fostering genuine connections within the global tea community through insightful, educational, and captivating discussions with industry thought leaders. Over his 50-year career, his expertise has spanned various roles as a newspaper reporter, editor, writer, podcaster, and blogger.
He publishes
Tea Journey (
www.teajourney.pub) magazine, edits the Tea Report at
STiR Tea and Coffee (
www.stir-tea-coffee.com)
Since 2021, he has hosted the Tea Biz Podcast for 160 consecutive weeks. His voice reaches an extensive audience, and his accompanying blog is viewed by over a quarter million tea professionals annually. Tea Biz Podcast |
https://pod.link/1549975153.
In 2016, he founded Tea Journey magazine following a successful Kickstarter campaign that generated $128,000 in donations from tea lovers in 36 countries.
Tea Journey is a global digital consumer publication for tea enthusiasts. View Dan’s Word Press Blog
Tea Biz at (
www.tea-biz.com) since 2013.
Dan is the former editor and publisher of
Tea Magazine (
www.teamag.com) and a former editor and publisher of
World Tea News (
https://www.worldteanews.com), an online resource for the global tea community. Dan is a beverage retail consultant and a frequent speaker at tea and coffee conferences worldwide. His work has appeared in many beverage publications, including
Specialty Coffee Retailer,
Cheers,
Fresh Cup,
CoffeeTalk, and the
SCAA Chronicle.
Since 1995, Dan has led six magazine ventures. He introduced himself to the food and beverage industry as CEO of California Beverage Publications, publisher of
Patterson’s Beverage Journal and the
Beverage Bulletin. Dan launched the
Certified Organic Food Directory in 2003 and
Natural Food magazine in May 2005. In 2007, Dan joined M2Media360 as Natural Food Network’s editor-in-chief. He was named editor-in-chief of
Specialty Coffee Retailer the following year. He is the former publisher of LA411, NY411, Digital 411,
Animation Magazine and the founding editor of
Below the Line, a Hollywood magazine for film and video production crews.
Dan worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in California for 20 years before starting his magazine career. He has four grown children and resides with his wife, Susan, in Winnipeg, Canada.
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