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Daniel Whelan’s Biography

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I graduated from Salford University in 2015 with a First Class Honours degree in Journalism.

Since then I have been working freelance and have had work published in various online and print publications such as The Telegraph, The Plymouth Herald, The Buxton Advertiser, The Blackpool Gazette, Four Four Two and The Stockport Express.

My work can also be seen on https://www.itsroundanditswhite.co.uk/contributors/dan-whelan and https://theculturedivision.com/dan-whelan.

For the last three years I h…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing match reports for my local football team for the local paper. They were fairly cruel with their editing.

How is social media changing news?

There's more of it. Whether that is good or bad I don't know.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Seth Wright (technically Press Secretary) in the Netflix series Designated Survivor.