About Dan
Dan McDonough, Jr., 33, is chairman and chief executive of privately held Elauwit, LLC – a New York-based media and technology company. He also serves as managing director of McDonough Media, LLC, which serves as a consultant to the investment banking and private equity industries investing in media assets.
McDonough started his career in media as a teenager. After a few years of reporting and copyediting experience, he was named executive editor of The Observer in Northern New Jersey at the age of 19. In his tenure there, the newspaper grew to be the largest independent weekly newspaper in New Jersey and was recognized with the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Since then, his news experience included serving as editorial-page editor for daily newspapers in New Jersey; as a New York City-based special correspondent for the Washington-based Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.; and as a news professional with Gannett Co. and Dow Jones & Co.
McDonough also served as president and publisher of The Staten Island Register, where he was able to grow revenues and circulation more than 100 percent in less than two years from taking the post. After negotiating the sale of The Register to an investment fund, he later served as president and chief executive of the fund’s newspaper operating entity – Staten Island Media Group, LLC – in 2004.
Later in 2004, McDonough was one of the founders of Haddonfield, N.J.-based Elauwit Media, which launched The Haddonfield Sun as its flagship newspaper. Since then, Elauwit Media has been named by Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the fastest growing companies in the region for two years in a row. Today, Elauwit Media publishes six community newspapers reaching nearly 60,000 families each week. It also publishes four business journals from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Columbia, S.C., reaching nearly 40,000 business leaders.
McDonough’s articles on business, technology and politics have been published in Intellectual Capital, National Review, The Christian Science Monitor, the NewsFactor Network, In These Times, and a number of other publications. He has served as a board member or as a key adviser to more than a dozen companies spanning three continents, and is a board member of a number of local and national business, community and charitable organizations – including serving on the national committee of the Boy Scouts of America. He received a BA in Political Science and Communications from William Paterson University, and studied for an MBA in finance and economics at Baruch College – City University of New York. He also is an amateur jazz bassist.