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biography

Dan McDonough, Jr. is president and chief executive of Staten Island Media Group and serves as publisher for three of the company's newspapers. He was the founder and president of Elauwit, a newspaper company that sold virtually all of its interests to Staten Island Media Group in February 2004.

Dan was the architect for the acquisition of the Staten Island Register, the first of Elauwit's newspapers, in August 2002. A year after Elauwit's first acquisition, Dan had lead a management team that launched three additional publications and grew revenues by more than 40 percent.

He has worked in the news operations of some of the world's largest news companies -- including Dow Jones and Gannett. He has served as deputy editorial page editor of the Courier-Post in South Jersey, was an editor for Dow Jones Newswires, and was a New York correspondent for the Washington-based Bureau of National Affairs (BNA).

McDonough's articles on business, technology, and politics have been published in Intellectual Capital, National Review Online, The Christian Science Monitor, the NewsFactor Network, In These Times, and a number of other publications.

He has won numerous regional and national journalism awards, and his editorials have appeared in The Masthead -- the journal of the National Conference of Editorial Writers.

Dan got his first full-time employment in journalism when he was 19 -- as executive editor of one of the largest independent weekly newspapers in New Jersey, The Observer. Under Dan's tenure, the century-old paper was recognized with multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.

He was born in Hoboken, N.J., in the winter of 1975, and spent his younger years in the heights of Jersey City. Now he lives in Middlesex County, N.J., with his wife, Jennifer, and their Yorkshire Terrier, Hannah.

Dan 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.