| Dan Kloeffler | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 (age 35–36) |
| Education | University of New Hampshire |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Dan Kloeffler (born 1976) is an American television journalist. Since 2010, he is an anchor of ABC News Now, a cable-news channel of the ABC broadcasting network.
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Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in Algonac, Michigan, in 1994. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, in 1999.
He worked at WSTM-TV – an NBC-affiliated television station in Syracuse, New York – prior to joining MSNBC, a cable-news channel. While at MSNBC, he anchored overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as MSNBC's First Look and broadcast network NBC's Early Today, both early-morning news programs;[1] Kloeffler left MSNBC in 2009.
In 2010, he became a freelance anchor and correspondent for ABC News, where he anchors on its ABC News Now channel.[2]
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 out would help encourage young gay people struggling to accept themselves.[4]
He lives in New York City, New York.