Dan Bennett

San Diego CA

Freelance Journalist — Freelance

Arts and Entertainment, Business and Finance, Health, Metro San Diego, Opinion and Editorial, U.S.

As seen in: Freelance, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Magazine

Covers: Business, B2B, community health, tactical urbanism, health, complete streets, education, food systems, Op-Eds, media, data storytelling, film, theater, music, video success stories.

About

Journalist. Storytelling. Communications. Training.

Dan Bennett's Biography

Freelance reporter and editor. Previously published in the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Movieline, PRWeek, National Lampoon.

Founder of StoryGrip, creating success stories for brands, projects and people - written, digital and video. Community-health communications specialist. Tactical Urbanism and Complete Streets communication specialist. Data-to-story specialist. Storytelling training. Media spokesperson training.

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E-mail to danbennett@cox.net

Portfolio

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Take This Joy Wherever

My music and life pilgrimage to Athens, Ga., delayed first by life, then near death, then realized. A story...

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Teletubbies Return: The Tinky Winky Interview

They are back. My interview with Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies.

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The Year the Gump People Came After Me

The aftermath when I gave a good review to the film "Forrest Gump," and the film's intense - to say the lea...

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Plugged Out: The Night I Almost Tilted on Deadline

My harried night crawling on the floor with a tight deadline, and the Who a room away. Suddenly, a surprise...

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DUBIOUS LIAISONS: Dan Bennett investigates Hollywood's history of 'creating' celebrity romances a...

Celebrity romances have long intrigued the wide-eyed, curious and often gullible public. The links, though,...

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Interview with author T.C. Boyle

Sitting atop his porch on a presumably gorgeous Santa Barbara day, T Coraghessan (hard g, accent on the sec...

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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Community reporter - talking to real people about their lives

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I was born with one attached to my arms

How is social media changing news?

Real time, quick, edgier

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