Danny Klein

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VP Editorial Director, Food, Retail, & Hospitality I QSR and FSR magazines I PMQ I CStore Decisions I Club + Resort

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Danny Klein is the VP Editorial Director of WTWH Media's Food, Retail, & Hospitality brands, including QSR and FSR magazines, CStore Decisions, PMQ, and Club + Resort. He began his hospitality media career in 2015 with QSR and FSR, two of the restaurant industry’s leading trade publications. Danny has won multiple industry awards, including a National Gold Azbee for QSR’s Drive-Thru Report and has become a trusted source of insight in the foodservice sector as a LinkedIn Top Voice creator. In 2023, he helped found and launch two of the restaurant space’s premier events—the QSR Evolution Conference and NextGen Restaurant Summit, where he serves as the organizer. Danny also created QSR and FSR’s Women in Restaurant Leadership platform and develops the WiRL Together Summit each year in February.

A graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, Danny spent more than a decade covering high school, college, and professional sports throughout Florida before joining the company as the associate editor of FSR magazine. A Brooklyn, New York, native, he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Lindsey, basset hound Maggie, daughter, Audrey, and son, Dean.

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  • WTWH Media LLC

    WTWH Media LLC

    4 years 8 months

    • WTWH Media LLC Graphic

      VP Editorial Director, Food, Retail, & Hospitality

      WTWH Media LLC

      - Present 1 year 4 months

      Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

      Oversee and curate content properties for QSR and FSR magazines, CStore Decisions, PMQ, and Club + Resort. Organizer and creator of QSR Evolution Conference, NextGen Restaurant Summit, and Women in Restaurant Leadership platform.

    • WTWH Media LLC Graphic

      Editorial Director, QSR and FSR magazines

      WTWH Media LLC

      - 3 years 5 months

      Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

      Curate and oversee all content properties for QSR and FSR magazines.

  • UF Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management Dept. (THEM) | Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute (EFTI) Graphic

    Advisory Board Member

    UF Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management Dept. (THEM) | Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute (EFTI)

    - Present 1 year 8 months

  • Director of Digital Content

    Journalistic, Inc.

    - 4 years 10 months

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    • Assign, manage, and publish web exclusive content for QSR and FSR magazines.
    • Create editorial plans for www.fsrmagazine.com and www.qsrmagazine.com.
    • Update and maintain www.fsrmagazine.com and www.qsrmagazine.com using Drupal content management system.
    • Engage readers through Twitter and Facebook, updating the accounts @FSRmag, @QSRmagazine, and the Facebook pages at www.facebook.com/fsrmag and www.facebook.com/QSRmagazine.
    • Send and curate the e-newsletters, FS Insider and…

    • Assign, manage, and publish web exclusive content for QSR and FSR magazines.
    • Create editorial plans for www.fsrmagazine.com and www.qsrmagazine.com.
    • Update and maintain www.fsrmagazine.com and www.qsrmagazine.com using Drupal content management system.
    • Engage readers through Twitter and Facebook, updating the accounts @FSRmag, @QSRmagazine, and the Facebook pages at www.facebook.com/fsrmag and www.facebook.com/QSRmagazine.
    • Send and curate the e-newsletters, FS Insider and QSR Jolt, five days a week.
    • Manage flow of aggregated content.

  • FSR magazine Graphic

    Associate Editor

    FSR magazine

    - 1 year 2 months

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    • Cover news and trends within the full-service restaurant industry for a national business-to-business publication.
    • Write in-depth feature stories for the monthly print publication as well as shorter, weekly online articles for www.fsrmagazine.com. Maintain and update the site using Drupal content management system.
    • Edit articles, manage and assign stories to a team of freelance writers.
    • Engage readers through Twitter and Facebook, updating the account @FSRmag and the Facebook…

    • Cover news and trends within the full-service restaurant industry for a national business-to-business publication.
    • Write in-depth feature stories for the monthly print publication as well as shorter, weekly online articles for www.fsrmagazine.com. Maintain and update the site using Drupal content management system.
    • Edit articles, manage and assign stories to a team of freelance writers.
    • Engage readers through Twitter and Facebook, updating the account @FSRmag and the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/fsrmag/
    • Send and curate the e-newsletter, FS Insider, four days a week.

  • Daytona Beach News-Journal Graphic

    Sports Writer/Page Designer

    Daytona Beach News-Journal

    - 2 years 1 month

    Daytona Beach, Florida Area

    • Responsible for coverage of Volusia and Flagler County high school sports, a 19-school territory, at a 65,000-circulation daily.
    • Work on the sports desk two nights a week, designing and building pages with Adobe InDesign software.
    • Update and maintain news-journalonline.com with Mediaware and Saxotech content management systems.
    • Engaging social media presence on Twitter, with more than 3,700 followers on main account, @DKNewsJournal.
    • Helped The News-Journal be recognized as…

    • Responsible for coverage of Volusia and Flagler County high school sports, a 19-school territory, at a 65,000-circulation daily.
    • Work on the sports desk two nights a week, designing and building pages with Adobe InDesign software.
    • Update and maintain news-journalonline.com with Mediaware and Saxotech content management systems.
    • Engaging social media presence on Twitter, with more than 3,700 followers on main account, @DKNewsJournal.
    • Helped The News-Journal be recognized as a Top 10 daily section (30,000 to 75,000 circulation) in the 2014 APSE contest
    and as a Top 10 website (news-journalonline.com) in the 2013 APSE contest (under 500,000).
    • Serving as the sports department’s social media leader, updating staff accounts @DBNJSports, @NASCARDaytona, the
    Pinterest page at DBNJSports and the Facebook page, The Daytona Beach News-Journal’s Prep Sports Zone.

  • The St. Augustine Record

    The St. Augustine Record

    5 years 3 months

    • Sports Editor

      The St. Augustine Record

      - 1 year 6 months

      • Manage three full-time employees, which includes daily, weekly and monthly budgeting, at a 20,000-circulation daily.
      • Use Adobe InDesign software on a daily basis; proficient in all versions of Adobe Photoshop.
      • Have been trained on website management using Drupal content management system.
      • Maintain staugustine.com website on a daily basis. Design and build pages within Drupal CMS for staugustine.com.
      • First place overall sports writing in the Morris Excellence in Journalism…

      • Manage three full-time employees, which includes daily, weekly and monthly budgeting, at a 20,000-circulation daily.
      • Use Adobe InDesign software on a daily basis; proficient in all versions of Adobe Photoshop.
      • Have been trained on website management using Drupal content management system.
      • Maintain staugustine.com website on a daily basis. Design and build pages within Drupal CMS for staugustine.com.
      • First place overall sports writing in the Morris Excellence in Journalism contest, Division B: Collection of work, in 2010
      and 2012. Second place in sports feature writing in the 2012 Florida Press Club awards; third place in column writing.

    • Sports Writer

      The St. Augustine Record

      - 3 years 10 months

      • Heavily involved in day-to-day operations, including planning, writing, design and making strict daily deadlines.
      • Received promotion from sports writer to sports editor at 25 years old, less than five years removed from college.

  • Sports Writer

    The Independent Florida Alligator

    - 2 years 5 months

    • University of Florida men’s basketball beat writer for the largest student-run publication in the country (2007 season).
    • University of Florida women’s soccer beat writer (2007 season).
    • University of Florida men’s and women’s golf beat writer (2006-07 season).
    • Assist with production, budgets and write columns. Was promoted to top beat in less than a year.

  • Sports Anchor Intern

    WESH-TV NBC 2

    - 4 months

    Worked with sports TV veteran, anchor Guy Rawlings. Helped edit video and cut highlights for daily news. Assisted in writing and compiling information.

  • The Madison Square Garden Company Graphic

    MSG.com Intern

    The Madison Square Garden Company

    - 4 months

    Helped build and maintain MSGNetwork.com, an award-winning website for all local N.Y. sports. Covered the New York Liberty, New York Yankees and New York Mets. Edited sound and video, as well as basic website development.

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