Covered sci-tech for CNN and CBS News before helping build Google's News Lab for several years and later worked at Moody's Analytics and cofounded GoodTrust. Now runs ScreenGeni.us, which sells enterprise-grade discovery to third parties.
Worth knowing
Few people have sat on both sides of the tech story: he has explained AI, quantum, blockchain, and consumer tech to network television audiences, and he has built the programs that connect Google to newsrooms. He knows how to make a complicated product legible to journalists, media buyers, and the public. Founders working on AI, media, or anything that needs a credible public voice should write.
Story
Daniel started out in 1998 as a daily reporter at the Vancouver Sun, covering tech, business and civics after degrees at the University of Victoria and UBC. Television followed: six years at CNN, where he also edited the CNN.com sci-tech section, then CBS News, then a consumer tech show at ABC. In 2011 he published a book on breaking tech addiction and joined Google, where he spent six years building Google for Media and the News Lab. Since leaving Google after six years he has co-founded two startups, one in blockchain journalism and one in digital legacy, and held senior marketing roles at Moody's Analytics and Huawei USA. He now builds ScreenGeni.us from NYC, where he lives with his two daughters.
Canadian story
Native of Western Canada; studied at UVic and UBC; dual Canadian-American citizen in New York.
Highlights
- Founder and CEO, ScreenGeni.us, founded 2023
- Emmy-nominated journalist; CBS News science and tech correspondent, 2006-2010
- Editor, Supercharge Your Life With AI (Stonesong, 2024)
- Author, The Digital Diet (Crown/Random House, 2011)
- Co-author, Digital Legacy (Stonesong, 2020)
- Co-founder, Civil and GoodTrust
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