Dan Ronan is the Associate News Editor Print and Multimedia for Transport Topics, the leading online and print publication covering the trucking, freight and logistics industry. Ronan’s specialty is business and financial reporting. He is an anchor of Transport Topics’ TV and multimedia platforms and the host of Transport Topics Radio, a weekly news show on SiriusXM’s Road Dog News Channel 146 which covers the trucking industry. Ronan also serves as a part-time news anchor on Sirius XM as the back-up host for Road Dog Trucking News and Road Dog Live.
A native of Chicago, Ronan has been a journalist for five decades, starting professionally while in high school covering news events for print and broadcast outlets nationally and regionally.
During his career, Ronan has been awarded eight Emmy Awards and two Edward R. Murrow Awards for journalism excellence. He has traveled to the Iraq/Kuwait border with the U.S. Army, reported from an earthquake zone along the India-Pakistan border, the Oval Office, Camp David, Maryland and twice aboard a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft as it flew into the eye of two separate category five hurricanes, Ivan and Rita. Ronan was a network correspondent with CNN, CBS NewsPath (freelance) and reported for leading stations in Dallas and Atlanta.
Ronan worked for ten years in public relations, rising to the position of Vice President of Strategic Communications at the Intelligent Transportation Society of American in Washington, D.C. During that time he established himself as one of the transportation industry’s experts on crisis communications being interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, CNN and other outlets.
For nine years Ronan served on the Board of Directors of Snowball Express, a 501©3 that is “Serving the Children of Our Fallen Military Heroes” raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and in-kind donations for the non-profit, which in 2018 became part of the Gary Sinise Foundation.
Ronan’s Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2015, he earned a Master’s Degree in Strategic Communications Management from Kent State University where he serves on the journalism school’s Professional Advisory Board. Ronan is a licensed commercial pilot, with instrument and multi-engine ratings. He also earned two certificates in Aviation Accident Investigation Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
